Bhubaneswar: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday lambasted Naveen Patnaik government for projecting Centre’s free ration scheme as its own.
Shah, who is on a whirlwind campaign tour to Odisha addressed three back-to-back rallies in the state (Bhadrak, Jajpur and Jagatsinghpur).
He boasted about Modi Government’s welfare policies in poll rallies, he said that it provided free ration to over 80 crore poor of the country, constructed around 12 crore toilets, and provided 4 crore pucca houses to the poor.
“Narendra Modi’s government is Chawal Wali Sarkar because it is providing free ration to the poor while Naveen Babu’s government is ‘Jhole Wali Sarkar’ as it merely adds jhola (bag) to the ration,” said Shah.
He further quipped, “Naveen Babu, you should have increased the amount of rice. Jholas (bags) can’t satiate the hunger of poor but added ration could have served the purpose.”
Leading the BJP campaign in the last leg of polls Shah blamed Patnaik for the backwardness and poverty and also the exodus of youth from the state.
He further said that this time, Odisha will have a local young person who will take the reigns of state.
“Odisha deserves a Chief Minister who is Odia, who is young, and who is a devotee of Bhagwan Jagannath. The BJP will win, and after 25 years, Odisha will finally be getting an Odia Chief Minister,” he reiterated at multiple rallies in the state today.
