Ram Madhav
Ram Madhav in state to oversee polls preparation
Newmai News Network
Aizawl | June 6
The Bhartya Janata Party JP on Wednesday expressed hope that it will form the next government in Mizoram. Election to the 40-member Mizoram legislative assembly is due in the later part of this year.
“Mizoram for us is an unfinished agenda which will be completed in the upcoming assembly election,” stated BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav on June 6.
“We gave a call to our party workers to prepare for the election and scout good people who have the supports of masses who are committed to serving the state,” he said.
“We are looking for good candidates who are committed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision. With the support of all these we are confident that we will be in a position to form the next government in Mizoram,” the national general secretary added.
Speaking to reporters in Aizawl on Wednesday, Madhav, who currently in the state to meet party leaders and workers said the saffron party would not use money power to win the election said, “We will not use money to manipulate election but Modiji’s will power to win the next assembly election.”
The BJP would create 100 plus booth level committees by August in order to strengthen the party, the BJP leader informed.
Lashing out at the Congress, Madhav said that despite being the most peaceful state in the entire Northeast and have conducive condition for development, Mizoram has been lagging behind in term of development.
This is primarily because of the “misrule of successive governments especially run by the Congress,” he alleged.
No development has happened in Mizoram, and even the basic thing like power generation has not happened even after 45 years, he added.
“No development happened and there is no domestic power generation even for the regular use of the people. Basic road condition also could not be improved. This is not because there is no possibility, but the state government is not interested,” he said, alleging that the Congress government is interested only in making its own interest.
Stating that Mizoram is deeply stuck in corruption, Madhav said that chief minister Lal Thanhawla has failed to uproot corruption.
“Many youths became victims of drugs addiction due to lack of employment in the state,” the BJP leader also said.
If there is any development happening in Mizoram it is from the Centre, he claimed adding the state live at the mercy of the Centre as “nearly 80 per cent of the state’s expense is met by the Central support.”
Despite minimal figure of population with only one million, Mizoram is not self sufficient in food grains and the the state government has done nothing in term of becoming self sufficient, Madhav added.
Backing the Governor, he said that all the accusations against him of being religiously biased were totally false.
The Governor is a “good and decent man sticking to his commitment but some parties are leveling allegations against him to evoke religious sentiments,” he defended.
The BJP leader also called upon the people of Mizoram not to fall prey to “baseless religious non-tolerance and false propaganda of rivals.”
