Congress releases 22-point 'charge sheet' against Gujarat BJP govt ahead of Assembly polls
The Hindu
Elections to the 182-member Gujarat Assembly will be held in two phases on December 1 and 5 and the counting of votes will be taken up on December 8
The Gujarat Congress released a 22-point 'charge sheet' against the state BJP government on Sunday ahead of the upcoming Assembly polls, accusing it of being anti-people.
All that an average Gujarati got was "hunger, fear and tyranny," it claimed.
The opposition party also highlighted in the 'charge sheet' the recent Morbi bridge collapse incident which claimed 135 lives, and dubbed as "unconstitutional" the release of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case and murder of seven members of her family during the Gujarat riots.
Elections to the 182-member Gujarat Assembly will be held in two phases on December 1 and 5 and the counting of votes will be taken up on December 8.
The last three decades of Gujarat have been marred by "continuous anti-people governance and mismanagement," the Congress said in the 'charge sheet'.
The opposition party appealed to the public to vote it to power to make the "Gujarat of Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel proud again".
"At a time when the BJP is working to divert the attention of the public from main issues affecting them, this charge sheet has been released to draw their attention back to these issues," former Union minister and senior Congress leader Bharatsinh Solanki said at a press conference.