Pratima Bhoumik calls upon Congress, CPIM workers to join BJP for development
By Firstdespatch Desk Dec 05, 2022
Agartala, Dec 5 (FD) Ahead of the state assembly elections in Tripura due early next year hectic politicking has started in the state.
Union Minister Pratima Bhoumik on Sunday said, the 2023 Assembly election would lay the foundation stone for making a ‘vibrant Tripura’ and the state would go ahead in terms of development.
He also appealed to the CPI (M) and Congress workers in the state to join the party.
“The 2018 election was like a liberation war to liberate Tripura from the Communist rule and the 2023 polls will be for laying the foundation stone of a vibrant Tripura under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi”, the senior BJP leader said at a party rally In West Tripura’s Bamutia.
“You will not be able to fulfil your dream by remaining attached with the Communist or Congress. You have to determine under whose hands – Narendra Modi or Rahul Gandhi -your future generation is safe. Come and join the saffron party to start a new beginning for your family as well as the state”, she said.
The Union Minister of State for Social Empowerment and Social Justice alleged that poor farmers could not sell their paddy during the CPI (M) rule.
“The paddy procurement has begun in the state only after the BJP came to power in 2018. This year, the state has set a target of procuring 35,000 MT paddy with Minimum Support Price (MSP) to double the farmers’ income. Besides, as many as 2,500 poor farmers of Bambutia are receiving Rs 6000 each under the flagship programme – PM Kishan Samman Nidhi”, she said.
Bhoumik claimed that the saffron party doesn’t believe in depriving people of their rightful rights be it Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana or Pradhan Mantri Kishan Samman Nidhi or something else, it was the CPI(M) that had “deprived” the people for long years. FD JK