BJP WILL BE VOTED OUT OF POWER: CHAUDHARY

Leader of Opposition Ram Govind Chaudhary on Thursday said the state government was neglecting those sections of the society which had voted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power and the people would vote it out in the polls.

“They (BJP) will be voted out of power and come here (in Opposition) and we (the Samajwadi Party) will go from (Opposition) to there (treasury benches),” said Chaudhary, while initiating the debate on the state’s general budget (2021-22) in the state assembly here.

Chaudhary said the farmers were agitating for the past three months and this was a point of discussion in every corner of the state. He said the farmers, the backward classes, the Dalits and the tribal people had voted them (BJP) to power. Instead of working for the welfare of these sections, the BJP government wanted to put them in a situation in which they were years ago, he alleged. The leader of Opposition named the communities, which he said were being deprived of the benefits of reservation. He said the educated youths were now realising that those whom they had elected had forgotten them.

“This is why the people of all caste and religions will not be misled by the BJP,” Chaudhary claimed. He also claimed that such large-scale unemployment had never been witnessed in the past 45 years. The BJP government had also scrapped the labour laws and the people had realised this government was working only for the corporate houses. He said moves were afoot to give public sector undertakings to the private sector. The private companies would be free to hire or fire anybody and the government would not have any control, he claimed. Why should the people bear the burden of electing a government that has no control, he asked.

Chaudhary said the state government had failed, alleging that the education and health sectors were in bad shape and there was no development taking place in the state. The state government said it was not aware of suicide by farmers, while the SP had recently sent a team of 30-35 legislators to Bundelkhand to give financial assistance to the families of those who had died by suicide, he claimed.