"BJP pays lip service but Congress strives to improve lives of underprivileged": Mallikarjun Kharge in Baran

Baran (Rajasthan) [India], October 16 (ANI): Launching an awareness campaign for the Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project (ERCP) in Baran district, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said that the Bharatiya Janata Party merely pays lip service for the welfare of the impoverished, while the Congress actively strives to improve the lives of underprivileged citizens.
Kharge emphasized that all the initiatives undertaken by the Congress, such as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), are primarily geared towards benefiting the less fortunate.
He criticized the BJP for making empty promises about supporting the poor while failing to allocate the necessary financial resources.
"All the work done by Congress party, like MGNREGA, is for the benefit of the poor. The MGNREGA project is happening on a very large scale here. The money for MGNREGA that is spent - we don't get it quickly. They (BJP) merely pays lip service for the welfare of the impoverished, while the Congress actively strives to improve the lives of underprivileged citizens... Whose government do you want, one who works or the one who only lies?" Kharge said while addressing Rajasthan's Baran.
He said people elected 25 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs from Rajasthan in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, but they could neither bring funds nor water for them.
"There is a new irrigation project here, that was promised twice by PM Modi... He said that he would give money for this irrigation project. But our Congress government has spent Rs 25,000 crores of their own to move it forward. But the Modi government has not given a rupee," he added.
Kharge further asserted that "if the Congress government is formed in Rajasthan, the party will come to power at the Centre in 2024".
The Rajasthan Assembly consists of 200 seats that will be contested on November 25, 2023.
Congress secured a victory in the last elections in 2018 with 101 seats.
The Congress is yet to release its list of candidates in the state while the BJP has released its first list fielding as many as 7 MPs in the assembly polls in Rajasthan.
The Congress will begin its election campaign for the upcoming assembly election in Rajasthan on October 16 with "Kaam Kiya Dil se, Congress Sarkar Phir se" as its slogan, state party president Govind Singh Dotasra said on Sunday. (ANI)