Agartala, Dec 22: Tripura CPI(M) state secretary Jitendra Chowdhury stated Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) government in the state should present a ‘report card’ of its vision document comprising 299 promises made to the voters before the 2018 Assembly elections.
Legislative Assembly elections in Tripura are due in early 2023.
The then Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley unveiled the BJP’s vision report before the 2018 Assembly polls.
“BJP government should present the report card based on its vision document instead of report card over the BJP-IPFT government’s performance during the past 58 months”, Jitendra Chowdhurystated at a party rally in South Tripura’s Bhuratali.
Recently, the ruling party published an Assembly constituency-wise report card highlighting the BJP-led government’s overall performance given that 2018.
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“The saffron party in its vision document had promised to provide 50,000 jobs in the first year if the party is voted into power in 2018. It had assured that the first cabinet if the party forms the government, will offer the 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC) to the state government employees with arrears. The government has failed to clear the DA to the employees”, Jitendra added.
Choudhury also slammed the BJP on the social pension issue saying it had promised to provide a Rs 2000 social pension to chosen beneficiaries.
“When the Left government lost the elections in February 2018, the number of social pensioners was 4.50 lakh and now it has reduced to 3.18 lakh. Around 1.32 lakh names of pensioners were deleted from the beneficiary list by the current government of the state,” he stated.
The CPI(M) state secretary said after spending 58 months in power, the state government started providing social pensions to 3.18 lakh beneficiaries. “It is unfair to deprive more than one lakh pensioners of their pension”, he said.
Responding to Chowdhury’s demand to present a ‘report card’ of its vision document of 2018, BJP state chief spokesperson Subrata Chakraborty stated that the veteran communist leader should first know the difference between a vision document and poll promises.
“The vision document is a roadmap for a government in which direction it will perform its duty which is not poll promises. More so, the saffron party did more than the vision document”, he said.
As far as government jobs are concerned, the state government has given more jobs than any five-year of the Left regime, he claimed, adding the CPI(M) leader is trying to “mislead” the people before the Assembly polls.
