The BJP has defended the Dhumal government giving land to the Patanjali Yogpeeth of Baba Ramdev and asserted that the Congress had no locus standi to criticise the decision as its government had obliged Christian missionaries.
Party spokesperson Ganesh Dut said the previous Congress government had given 15 bigha land at a token lease money of Re 1 per month to a local school run by Christian missionaries. The Congress was obsessed with the “videhsi” tag and it viewed the “swadeshi” organisations, which were rendering commendable services, with contempt. This was unfortunate. The manner in which the Centre crushed Baba Ramdev’s agitation against corruption and black money was unprecedented.
The Congress was claiming that the state was being run with Central funds, but the fact was that it was being denied its due by the UPA regime. The 13th Finance Commission had handed out a raw deal to the state by curtailing grants amounting to Rs 1,600 crore. Not only that, the industrial package granted by the previous NDA regime for a period of 10 years up to March 2013, was terminated prematurely in March 2010. The state’s quota of foodgrains under the public distribution system and even that of cooking gas refills had been reduced, Dut alleged.
The Congress had no real issues and it was indulging in false propaganda against the government to gain political mileage and its leaders were resorting to hit-and-run policy.
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