Staff Reporter
SHILLONG:
The state president of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) Ernest Mawrie criticized state Congress president Vincent Pala of being oblivious to the faults of his own party.
In a statement issued, the BJP sarcastically said, “The BJP thanked Vincent Pala and others for raising the issue of atrocities against Christians in Chhattisgarh, which is a Congress ruled state.”
The BJP hit out at the Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) president for trying to polarise the public and then blaming the BJP for it.
Mawrie maintained that no BJP scheme or policy has ever discriminated against people on the basis of their religion.
He pointed out that there are over 2.5 lakh beneficiaries in Meghalaya who receive Rs 6000 per year into their accounts and there are more than 1.5 lakh households in Meghalaya that have been connected with tapped water.
There are more than 60 thousand families in Meghalaya who have received homes under the BJP government program and he stated that most of these beneficiaries in Meghalaya are Christians.
Turning to the incident in Chhattisgarh where Christians have come under attack, Mawrie said that Christian families have had to run away from their homes and live in refugee camps in stadiums and Church premises, while Churches are being vandalised.
The BJP has charged the Congress and others of trying to polarise the polls by bringing up false narratives against the party and diverting public attention from the real issue of poor growth, invisible progress, deteriorating education, diminishing health, bad roads, lack of tourism, etc.
The BJP stated, “The Congress policy is that of divide and rule. It has been so since forever. And other political parties have also picked up this trick now. Wherever there is Congress there is division of people and fairytales of development. Wherever there is BJP led governance, there is development of people and false propaganda of division and polarisation by the opposition.”
Mawrie went on to say that the BJP will not disappear after elections and reappear in five years like Pala.