Rajasthan
Gehlot: If Congress returns to power, public welfare schemes will be strengthened more: Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot | Jaipur News
JAIPUR: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday said that if Congress comes to power again in the state, it will further strengthen existing welfare programmes.
Attacking BJP, Gehlot said, “These people stop the work of previous government as soon as there is change of guard.”
Gehlot is now trying hard to convince the people to buck the trend of changing government in every five years.
The chief minister, after a meeting to discuss the time-bound completion of programmes announced in the Budget-2023, told reporters that if my (Congress) government repeats, schemes like Chiranjeevi Health Insurance Scheme will be strengthened.”
This was the last budget of the present government as the state is going to assembly elections later this year. Rajasthan has not repeated a government in nearly three decades.
Referring to the delay in the Barmer refinery project, Gehlot said that losses occur if there is a change in government after every five years.
“If the government had not changed, by now the refinery and the petrochemical complex would have been completed, production would have started, lakhs of people would have been benefited. This is the disadvantage of changing governments,” he said.
“These people (BJP) stop the work of old schemes as soon as the government changes. We do not stop the work of any of their schemes… Our approach is different. That’s why I ask people to get our government repeated so that schemes I have brought this time can be strengthened,” Gehlot said.
On PM Narendra Modi, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and petroleum minister Hardeep Singh Puri‘s visits to Rajasthan, Gehlot said that this will continue as they (the BJP) don’t have any other work to do.
Attacking BJP, Gehlot said, “These people stop the work of previous government as soon as there is change of guard.”
Gehlot is now trying hard to convince the people to buck the trend of changing government in every five years.
The chief minister, after a meeting to discuss the time-bound completion of programmes announced in the Budget-2023, told reporters that if my (Congress) government repeats, schemes like Chiranjeevi Health Insurance Scheme will be strengthened.”
This was the last budget of the present government as the state is going to assembly elections later this year. Rajasthan has not repeated a government in nearly three decades.
Referring to the delay in the Barmer refinery project, Gehlot said that losses occur if there is a change in government after every five years.
“If the government had not changed, by now the refinery and the petrochemical complex would have been completed, production would have started, lakhs of people would have been benefited. This is the disadvantage of changing governments,” he said.
“These people (BJP) stop the work of old schemes as soon as the government changes. We do not stop the work of any of their schemes… Our approach is different. That’s why I ask people to get our government repeated so that schemes I have brought this time can be strengthened,” Gehlot said.
On PM Narendra Modi, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and petroleum minister Hardeep Singh Puri‘s visits to Rajasthan, Gehlot said that this will continue as they (the BJP) don’t have any other work to do.
