BJP eggs NE states to vote out Congress

***BJP leader Arun Jaitley addressing a public rally at Laban on Thursday. TM pix***

SHILLONG, FEB 14: Former union minister and BJP leader Arun Jaitley egged the north eastern states to show the way by voting out the Congress even as he blamed the party for creating a cleft between the north eastern region and mainland India.

Addressing a public rally at Laban Sports Club on Thursday, a day before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Congress election rally in Polo, Jaitley blamed the Congress for looting the nation for over fifty years.

Jaitley also released Megh Vision document 2025, wherein the BJP has propose to focus in sector like women and children development, skill development, youth achievement, making governance efficient and transparent, potable water and management of water resources.

Jaitley also accused the Congress for harbouring Bangladeshi nationals in the north east and Bengal as part of their bigger game of creating vote banks for the party.

Jaitley said, “It is high time that the country should be free from Congress rule and it is north east which can lead its way in doing so as three states are going to poll soon and the voters can vote the congress out.”

Reminding those who attended the public meeting, Jaitley said during the short tenure of NDA government led by prime minister Atal Bihari Bhajpai NDA the national highway project was initiated in 1999 but the project is still incomplete even today. He said the Congress government appears not to want connectivity of the region.

Lamenting that a beautiful place like Shillong, known as the Scotland of the East, has been neglected as indicated by poor connectivity, Jaitley said that eleven percent of the world depends on tourism as the source of revenue but Meghalaya gifted with beautiful landscape and salubrious weather has suffered because of bad road connectivity.

Former BJP MP Kiran Rijiju continued his tirade against the Congress and blamed the party for encouraging the militant groups in the region. He said, “The youths whose hand should be holding pen are instead gun and it really hurt me.”

He reiterated the allegation against the Congress saying it is taking the support of militants in Garohills to win elections.