Now BJP chief Nadda calls for 'BJD mukt Odisha'

September 30, 2022 20:56

BJP president JP Nadda

Intensifying his attack against the 22-year-old Naveen Patnaik government in Odisha, Bharaiya Janata Party president JP Nadda on Friday called upon party workers to ensure that the state becomes BJD mukt (BJD free).

He also accused the Biju Janata Dal dispensation of re-branding central schemes as those of its own and making fake bills to misappropriate MGNREGA funds.

"If you sincerely want to see a developed state, you have to do hard work and make Odisha BJD mukt," Nadda told a gathering of the BJP's frontal organisations.

To ensure a developed India, we need to develop all states including Odisha. And for the overall development of Odisha, the state has to get rid of the BJD, the BJP president said to loud applause from the gathering.

Nadda, who was on a two-day visit to Odisha since Thursday, charged the BJD government with hijacking the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and re-branding it as its own -- Biju Pucca Ghar Yojana.

Modi ji is facilitating houses for the poor and needy while the credit is being taken by the BJD, he said and asked the frontal organisations to make people aware of this.

He also claimed that the Centre sanctioned Rs 15,490 crore under MGNREGA in Odisha, but fake bills are being made to misappropriate funds.

The BJP president also attacked the BJD government for not implementing the Centre's Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme.

The government is depriving free of cost healthcare benefits to about 60 lakh families in Odisha.

"Should we allow a government to continue, which denies health benefits to the poor?" Nadda said. -- PTI

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