Rajnath says lotus to bloom in Tripura, slams Left govt
AGARTALA : Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday launched a scathing attack on the Left Front government in Tripura for underdevelopment in the state despite being in power for over two decades.
On the campaign trail in Tripura, where assembly elections are scheduled for February 18, Singh slammed the Manik Sarkar government for unemployment, poverty, poor law and order and inadequate power supply in the northeastern state and appealed to the public to throw out the ‘corrupt Left Front government’ and vote for the BJP.
“I now have no doubt that the corrupt Left Front government will be rooted out in the Assembly polls,” he said at a public rally. “Lotus blooms in the mud. The CPI(M) government, with its scams and corrupt practices over the last 25 years, has set the stage for the blooming of the lotus,” he said. The Left Front has been in power since 1993 while Manik Sarkar has been the chief minister since 1998.
“No government requires 25 years to usher development in any state. But in Tripura, there are many people who cannot afford a bicycle worth of ₹1000. One should look at Chhatisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand for good governance. People in the country could experience good governance only under BJP regime. So, I appeal to them to give chance to BJP this time to see beginning of development era in all sectors,” Singh said.
A total of 297 candidates are in the fray for the elections.
Praising the two term of NDA rule in the country — one under Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the other under incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Singh said that people have seen era of development. He also referred to the murder of two journalists in the state recently and said that if BJP wins, it would hand over the investigation to the CBI.