Raipur:
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed Congress workers in election-bound Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur today. Here are the highlights of Dr Singh's address:
- I need to warn the nation of parties like the BJP who are misleading people under the veil of secularism.
- Nine years of UPA rule has led to rural development
- Right to Education act led to empowerment
- Congress party is committed to development of Chhattisgarh
- Cong will never bow to the threat of Naxalism
- The National Rural Health Mission has improved the condition of people in villages.
- We will never resort to cheap politics like the BJP
- BJP is short on facts and big on rhetoric.
- BJP govt in Chhattisgarh has failed completely
- BJP doesn't deserve to come to power
- 14 districts in Chhattisgarh are getting special assistance from the Centre to fight poverty and Maoism
- Centre sends large amounts of money to Chhattisgarh to deal with Naxalism, but the money is never used properly
- We need to beware of communal forces
- Congress will never use bad language
- Centre is concentrating on rural, poor districts. Special assistance is being given to such districts in Chhattisgarh