Congress hits back at Modi, cites govt data to counter his claims
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- Wednesday, 10 October 2012 17:33
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Gujarat Global News Network, Gandhinagar
The Congress today hit back at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi over his claims of injustice done to Gujarat by the centre. Leader of opposition in the State Assembly Shaktisinh Gohil has said that the Gujarat Chief Minister has anti poor, anti tribal and anti dalit mindset.
Gohil said that congress at the centre gave rights to tribal and others on forest land, but BJP ruled state government has not given these rights of land to these people. He was addressing a meeting of workers, booth in charges and local leaders of Bhiloda and Himmatnagar Assembly segments of Sabarkantha district.
He said that the government was not concerned about quality education to people of Gujarat. This is also clear from the fact that Gujarat has the lowest budgetary allocation in the country in terms of share of the total budget. In the past anyone could pursue medical or engineering education. However, now professional education has become a dream for poor.
He cited example of a poor student who was studying medicine in Ahmedabad. Fees was increased overnight. This led to a severe depression for the student who belonged to a poor family and his parents had already toiled to get him admitted in medical college. He committed suicide. This is a blot on Gujarat, he said. The family of the student has not got any relief. Parents are running from pillar to post to lodge a complaint, but in vain.
Referring to the allegation of the CM that the central govt was not giving it permission to lay gas pipeline, he said that he was misleading and challenged the Chief Minister to disclose details of Gujarat proposal of pipeline sent to Delhi. He said that as per the rule such proposals were cleared by regulatory body and any proposal must satisfy the criteria set up by the regulatory body. He said that there was no question of Cong’s refusal as no proposal was sent. Gohil said that CM, in fact, wanted his favorite businessman to make money out of the pipeline project.
Challenging Modi over his remarks that injustice is meted out to the state by the Centre Gohil said that as per the social-economic review 2011 placed in the State Assembly by the state government the length of national highways reduced. Instead of increase during the five years of NDA rule the length of national highways in Gujarat reduced from 2382 kms to 2354 kms in 2003-04 when NDA went out of power. This injustice of reduction in length of highways was done when BJP was at centre. On the other hand it is clearly mentioned in the same report that during the UPA rule the length of national highways increased at a great speed from 2354 kms to 3245 kms in 2008-09.
The Congress government gave maximum benefits to Gujarat, Gohil said. While maximum injustice was done during NDA rule when political Guru of Modi, senior BJP leader L K Advani who was elected from Gujarat was deputy Prime Minister. During his tenure the length of highways in the state reduced. Gohil said that if proven wrong he was ready to face any action by Modi or even a worker.
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