Priyanka launches poll campaign in MP

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday launched party’s campaign for the upcoming Assembly elections.

She performed a pooja at the Narmada River and addressed a mega rally to mark the launch of the poll campaign.

Addressing a huge gathering in Jabalpur district, Priyanka Vadra hit out at the ruling BJP over scams, growing unemployment and atrocities against women and tribals in the state.

“I was surprised to know that Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s scam list is longer than Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s abuses. In the last 220 days, 250 scams took place in Madhya Pradesh. This is the development the BJP government brought around in the last three years after toppling the Congress government,” Priyanka said.

Corruption affects the life of common people and ruins their future, she said. “I heard that a couple of days back, BJP announced a scheme here in Jabalpur. I would ask CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, “What have you done in the last 18 years?” the Congress leader asked.

She also targeted the BJP over alleged corruption in ‘Mahakal Lok’ corridor saying the saffron party did not spare even the Gods.

Priyanka said the BJP makes big promises during elections but never fulfils them. “I have seen several double, triple-engine governments, but people of Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka gave a befitting reply to them,” she said.

Jabalpur is at the centre of the Mahakoshal region, which has a significant number of tribal voters. In the 2018 Assembly polls, the Congress won 11 of the 13 Scheduled Tribe reserved seats in the division, while the BJP bagged the other two.