At Puducherry rally, BJP chief Nadda promises development, employment to youth

Nadda is on a two-day go to to Tamil Nadu and Puducherry to take inventory of the get together's affairs and ballot preparedness months earlier than meeting elections are due within the southern state and UT.

By hindustantimes.com | Written by Kanishka Sarkar, Hindustan Occasions, New Delhi

UPDATED ON JAN 31, 2021 01:30 PM IST

A day after confirming his get together’s alliance with All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in Tamil Nadu meeting elections slated for this yr, BJP nationwide president JP Nadda on Sunday visited the neighbouring poll-bound Puducherry and promised improvement within the Union territory.

“You'll witness development taking place and we would make Puducherry corruption-free. We will bring a sea change in Puducherry,” he stated on the rally.

Nadda assured the folks of the Union territory that greatest healthcare amenities can be supplied to them below Ayushman Bharat and an IT park will give employment to the youth. “The Industrial Park will be given priority. We will conduct the local body elections after we form the government,” he stated.

Hitting out chief minister Velu Narayanasamy, Nadda stated when the previous was Union minister, he waived off loans price ₹5,000 crores for Jharkhand. “However, the current CM didn’t do the same for Puducherry. This is the kind of justice he did to the state,” he stated.

He additionally reminded folks of Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s reign when Puducherry was given 70% grant-in-aid and slammed Congress get together saying, “Till then, for 35 years of Congress rule, 52% of the population had been living below the poverty line.” Nadda alleged that the grant-in-aid was lowered to 30% when V Narayanaswamy, the incumbent CM, grew to become a Union minister.

In Tamil Nadu, the place Nadda formally introduced on Saturday that the alliance with the ruling AIADMK will proceed for the meeting elections slated for April-Might, the BJP is hoping to money in on the Centre’s social welfare and different centrally-sponsored schemes to earn an edge over the opposition in Tamil Nadu, the place its presence is nascent.