PM Modi remotely inaugurates 22 dev projects worth over Rs 4,800 cr in for Manipur
Tripura Cong slams Modi for "not keeping promises" to the state people
Tripura/New Delhi, Jan 05 (UNI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated 22 development projects worth Rs 4800 crores for Manipur, remotely from Imphal.
However in Agartala, the opposition Congress trained its guns on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday during his visit to the
Northeastern state, accusing him of cheating the people of Tripura by not fulfilling any of his promises, which had been made during the
last assembly elections.
Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee Spokesperson Prashanta Bhattacharjee alleged that the Modi government took seven years to
finish the projects sanctioned by the then UPA government but shamelessly claimed the full credit of success.
Before the assembly elections, the Prime Minister and BJP leaders had promised to set up Special Economic Zones in the State for sectors like food processing, Bamboo, IT and Textiles but after four years, it was still in the process and nothing had happened except for “tall
talk”.
“They had promised to provide free smartphones to youths, employment to every household, free education for women till graduation,
implement the recommendation of 7th central pay commission for government employees, set up a degree college in each of the state’s
60 Assembly constituencies, and an adequate number of multi-specialty hospitals including an AIIMS-like hospital in Tripura. But none of these have happened yet,’ Bhattacharjee alleged.
“The BJP had taken the people’s vote with the promise to make a logistic hub here for transportation of goods to the Northeast and
make Tripura a hub for tourism and education. But today that has remained only a dream for the people of Tripura. Instead, the BJP-led
government made the state a desert of development and brought the culture of arrogance and vendetta politics,” he claimed.
He alleged that the BJP promised an investigation into the scams of non-banking financial institutions including the Rose Valley scam and punish all those found guilty,