‘Modi’s false packages have betrayed people of Gujarat’
Keshubhai Patel-led Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP) on Saturday alleged that chief minister Narendra Modi has “betrayed” the people of the state by announcing “false” special packages worth over `39,000 crore during his Sadbhavana Mission fasts held in 2011.
Terming Mr Modi’s Sadbhavna fasts as purely “political” in nature, GPP general secretary Gordhan Zadaphia alleged that it led of loss of `160 crore to the state exchequer.
“During the series of fasts under Sadbhavana Mission, Gujarat CM had announced special packages for the development works in various districts totalling over `39,000 crore. However, today we can say that it was a sheer bundle of lies as not a single penny has reached the districts,” Mr Zadhapia told reporters.
“In response to the RTI queries filed in nearly 70 per cent of the districts, state administration revealed that no such packages were ever announced nor were they aware of them. The grants have neither reached,” he said.
Citing an RTI reply, Mr Zadaphia said, “In response to an RTI query, Jamnagar Collector has revealed that no official record is available for it.”
According to GPP, after his three-day fast in Ahmedabad, Modi had conducted a one-day fasts in every district during which he had announced a special package of `3,500 crore for Jamnagar district, “which finds an endorsement on social media as well”.
“Under the garb of pious, religious fasts, people have been betrayed by the Gujarat chief minister, as it was all public money spent on a political party function. It has cost the state exchequer `160 crore, and we shall challenge it in the court of law,” he said. He said transport expenses for ferrying people to the fasts venue was borne by the state.
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