Sachin Pilot: Congress will win all 25 Lok Sabha seats in Rajasthan

Jaipur, May 4 Rajasthan Congress president Sachin Pilot on Saturday said the BJP had neglected to tell individuals amid the Lok Sabha election what had it done for them over the most recent five years and exuded confidence that his party would clear the state by winning all the 25 Lok Sabha seats in the ongoing polls.

"Poll campaigns should be kept running on the issues of governance, investment and so on. The Congress completed a positive election campaign, unlike the BJP, which did not show its report card. No leader of the BJP is prepared to discuss employments, which is the core issue," the Rajasthan deputy chief minister told reporters at the party office here.

"There is a wave in favour of the Congress and we will achieve our target of 'Mission 25' (winning all the 25 Lok Sabha seats in Rajasthan)," he included.

The former Union minister said jobs and farmers' problems were the core issues in the Lok Sabha polls, while charging that BJP leaders were not taking about these issues and misleading people.

Pilot said there was a new low in legislative issues and the vocabulary utilized by lawmakers amid the battle, which was a reason for concern.

"Those possessing top positions in the legislature are setting negative precedents for the new age," he said.

The vice president serve likewise asserted that the quantity of individuals working under MGNREGA in Rajasthan had expanded from nine lakh in December a year ago, when the Congress government assumed control over the reins of the state from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), to 31 lakh now.

Polling for 12 Lok Sabha seats in Rajasthan will be held on May 6. Thirteen seats in the state had gone to the polls on April 29 and the results will be declared on May 23.

In the 2014 parliamentary polls, the BJP had cleared the state by bagging all the 25 seats.