PANAJI
Aam Aadmi Party has slammed the government for only announcing jumla in the run-up to the upcoming Assembly elections in 2022.
In a press release, State Convenor Rahul Mhambre has said that whether jobs or welfare schemes, only hollow announcements made been made to mislead Goans while the government runs the economy and the state’s finances into the ground.
On the promise of 10,000 jobs, Mhambre said that the Chief Minister made this promise before every election since he became CM, but it turned out to be a jumla each time, the press release further stated.
“BJP is worried after seeing the anti-incumbency among people, having nothing to show for the past ten years of BJP rule. They are desperate, and will even create fake letters to hand over to prospective candidates before elections, but these will not be worth the paper they are printed on after elections. Forget 10,000, I challenge the government to fill just 1,000 jobs by December,” Mhambre dared.
Mhambre also raised the issue of the Ladli Laxmi scheme, in the press release, stating that the government was spurred into action only after AAP exposed the BJP for destroying late Manohar Parrikar’s legacy by making the scheme almost defunct by delaying approval to thousands of applications.
“However, the BJP is using even this scheme as a Jumla. BJP MLAs are calling women to their party office to hand over “sanction letters” for the Ladli Laxmi scheme, but there is no clarity on when the beneficiaries will receive the funds. After keeping applications pending for years, hardly 10% of the applications have been approved so far, that too after AAP raised the issue,” Mhambre said.
Mhambre said the government has cheated the people on every promise while increasing the burden on the common man through hikes on almost everything from petrol to electricity, and burdening small businesses with hikes in various fees, taxes and charges, the press release added.
“The BJP came into power in 2012 with a debt of Rs 6,000 crore, and today this is touching Rs 20,000 crore”, Mhambre charged.
