Press Note Eng Dt: 05/10/2012

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Press Note                                                                     5^th October, 2012

• Gujarat Chief Minister has sensed his defeat in elections and so he is managing fraudulent surveys through money.
• Depending on paid surveys, he will meet the fate of Chandrababu Naidu
• In Gujarat only three lakh families have piped gas, but Modi is not offering subsidized LPG cylinders.
• In the last ten years, there is fall of 3,756 million units of electricity to farmers.
• In the last ten years 5,986 routes of State Transport have been closed down.
• In 2000, ST had 8,573 buses, which have now been reduced to 6,514.
• Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Shaktisinh Gohil addressed a massive gathering at Dhandhuka.

Congress ruled states in the country have decided to give additional subsidized LPG cylinders, but Gujarat Chief Minister has no concern for people and claims that there was no need for it because he was providing piped gas to them Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Shaktisinh Gohil said while addressing a rally in Dhandhuka today. He described the claim of the Chief Minister a blatant lie. Quoting from Socio-Economic review 2011-12, a government publication, he said that only 3,00,965 families get piped gas while the rest of the six crore of Gujarat depended on LPG. Still he has nothing for people of Gujarat. Gohil asked if people had piped gas, all shouted loud no. He said that even this piped gas was to the benefit of Adani who was provided gas at a very cheap rate as pointed out by the CAG.

Chief Minister has not done anything useful for people of Gujarat in the last 12 years. He has claimed that he has made houses for people, but information collected by Kutch Ladayak Manch through Right to Information exposed his claims. No one has been given any house. Now when he finds power slipping out of his hands, he has promised pucca houses to tribal in a meeting in Dahod, a ludicrous promise. There was a tradition of giving land to ex service men and dalits. Chief Minister has not only discontinued it, he has asked for surrender of the land who were given land earlier.

Gohil said that Chief Minister knows about impending defeat in elections and so he was trying to project a winning situation through paid surveys. He reminded Modi of the fate of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu who had indulged in similar exercise of fraudulent surveys and imaginary claims. He had a humiliating defeat in elections. People of Gujarat will deliver similar fate.

 

 

 

In the past every village was connected with ST bus. In the last ten years, 5,986 routes of State Transport have been closed down. In 2000, ST had 8,573 buses, which have now been reduced to 6,514. Chief Minister talks about development but focuses on few favourites only. Ten years ago farmers were given 15,489 million unit of electricity which has now been reduced to 11,733 units. This is despite the fact that in the last ten years need for electricity has increased in the agriculture sector. In the last ten years, there is fall of 3,756 million units of electricity to farmers.

In the past during Congress rule people used to get life saving drugs free. But the quantum of free medicines has been reduced to almost zero. People have to pay for medicine in government hospitals. Chief Minister is now talking about free medicines when Congress in its vision 2012 made it clear that it would provide insurance cover to patients suffering from cancer, TB and ailments of heart, kidney and liver.

Somabhai Patel while addressing the crowd said that it was anti people and must be thrown out. District Congress president Premjibhai Vithalani and Congress leader Murtazakhan Pathan were also present.

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