C’garh will be Naxal-free if BJP voted to power: Shah
Says CM Baghel has turned Chhattisgarh into an ‘ATM’ for the Congress
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday accused the Congress of encouraging Naxalism, and said incidents of Naxal violence have come down by 52 per cent in the nine-year rule of the Narendra Modi government. Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel turned Chhattisgarh into an “ATM for the Congress,” Shah claimed, adding the Congress rule in the state was a “government of scams”.
Addressing rallies in Jagdalpur and Kondagaon in poll-bound Chhattisgarh, he urged people to bring the BJP to power in the state, promising that his party will make the entire state free of the Naxal menace. “Today, I have come to urge you to elect the BJP once again in the state, we will hang upside down those who have embezzled the money of tribals by committing scams,” Shah said.
He claimed that if the Congress comes back to power in Chhattisgarh, the money sent from the Centre for the state’s development will be “diverted to Delhi through the ‘ATM’ of Congress”. Polling for the 90 assembly seats in Chhattisgarh is scheduled to be held in two phases on November 7 and 17 and votes will be counted on December 3.
Shah said the people of Chhattisgarh will celebrate Diwali thrice - once on the day of the festival, second when the BJP will be elected to power on December 3, and third when the construction of Ram temple (in Ayodhya) will be completed in January, as Chhattisgarh is Lord Ram’s “nanihal” (the place of Lord Ram’s maternal grandparents). He held the first rally in Jagdalpur, the headquarters of Bastar district, ahead of the filing of nominations of BJP candidates in three constituencies of Bastar.
