Naveen Patnaik: BJP fails to keep its promises

Bhubaneswar, Nov 2 Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Friday blamed the BJP for not keeping its promises made to the people in Odisha on according special category status to the state.

"According special category status for Odisha was the first agenda in BJP's 2014 poll manifesto. However, the party simply forgot it after assuming power," Patnaik said while addressing to a capacity here on the event of ruling BJP's 'Jan Sampark Padayatra'.

Stating that he was "to a great degree glad" over the BJP's guarantee with the expectation that individuals of Odisha will at last get equity, Patnaik said "the desire for the people stayed in expectation alone and never materialised."

Recalling how both the BJD and the BJP were battling for the exceptional classification status for the state till 2009 preceding the coalition broke, he said "our battle for the status will proceed till it is satisfied."

As Odisha has been experiencing with common catastrophes relatively consistently and causing enormous misfortune, it ought to be concurred the status, he said.

"Isn't visit normal cataclysms a solid ground to accord the unique classification status," Patnaik inquired.

He said the young people of Odisha would have been the greatest recipients had the state being given extraordinary class status. "Odisha will get impose refund in the event that it gets the status.

This will bring a few ventures which will make employments for youths," he said.

If there is less financial burden on the express, the administration may spend more cash on health, education and infrastructure. In any case, the state has been denied the open door as the BJP overlooked its guarantees, the chief minister said.

Subsequently, Patnaik called upon the people of Odisha to "remind" the BJP about its guaranteed made in 2014 during the 2019 elections.

Taking note of that the BJP government put stock in work and not in words, Patnaik said that his gathering had made four guarantees previously the 2014 decisions on nourishment security, pucca houses, health affirmation and standardized savings. "We have chipped away at all the guarantees made to the people in 2014," Patnaik said.

The chief minister said his government had launched the state's own food security scheme, Biju Pucca Ghar Yojana (a lodging plan), Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (a health plan) and Madhu Babu Pension Yojana (a social security scheme).

Patnaik said that his government launched these plans as the central schemes did not suit all the destitute individuals in the state. "We have been striving to make the advantages contact the needy people," the chief minister said.