**Bhubaneswar**: While speaking on the occasion of BJD’s continuing Jan Sampark Padayatra, Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister, Odisha on Sunday emphasized how his government’s successful initiation and implementation of welfare programmes in the state has turned Odisha into a role model of a welfare state for others to follow in the country.
Addressing the gathering here in Salia Sahi Jatra Padia, Bhubaneswar, the BJD Chief highlighted how his government is committed to work in the interest of the 4.5 crore Odias of the state, while also emphasizing how the BJD is committed to protecting the natural resources of the state such as soil, water, and air, and urging “the people of the state to work and enhance the new era of development that the BJD has heralded in Odisha.”
“In the field of Welfare, our state has emerged as a model for the entire country. But, national politicians have always disappointed Odisha and are destroying the federal structure of the country to further the vested interests of their own party. They are promoting a fake picture of progress, which the people of Odisha have never accepted up until now and will never do so in the future.” He asserted.
Golak Mohapatra, Spokesperson, BJP, Odisha, on the other hand quickly retaliated the Odisha Chief Minister’s denouncement of the BJP ruled Government in the Centre by taking a dig at the state government’s shortcomings, especially in constructing bridges and distributing inefficiently the welfare measures, which the Centre has passed on to the BJD government up until now. “Modi Sarkar is sending help, which the incompetent and sluggish government is not able to transfer to the people in need below the clear evidence of which is the flyover collapse in Bhubaneswar, where a 20 crore contract has been offered at Rs. 44 crores to contractors. Then also the bridge over River Jira fell down, along with other bridges in the state,” he pointed out.
Moving over to other failures of the government, the BJP Spokesperson emphasized, how in order to “carry out the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awaas Yojana too, they are asking bribes, and more than 50, 000 teachers are missing from schools. There’s no water, electricity and in spite of that if, just to amuse himself, the CM wants to blame the government in the Centre then, a fitting response in this regard has been given by the people of the state in the last Panchayat elections, which they will continue to do so in the future elections as well.”