NEW DELHI: The Congress on Sunday stated its earlier authorities in Rajasthan handed a collection of visionary legal guidelines to meaningfully enhance the standard of lifetime of hundreds within the state and requested why the present BJP dispensation is “rolling again” pro-people schemes. Congress basic secretary Jairam Ramesh posed the inquiries to Prime Minister Narendra Modi forward of his rallies in Jalore and Banswara.
“Why is the BJP Authorities rolling again the INC’s pro-people schemes? Does the PM prioritise his businessmen mates over Rajasthan’s rural communities? Why has ERCP not been designated a nationwide challenge but,” Ramesh requested in a submit on X.
Elaborating on what he stated have been “jumla particulars”, Ramesh stated when the Congress was in energy in Rajasthan, it handed a collection of visionary legal guidelines that might meaningfully enhance the standard of lifetime of hundreds within the state.
“The Rajasthan Minimal Assured Revenue Act, the addition of 25 additional days for MGNREGA (Rural) over and above the sanctioned 100 days, the Indira Gandhi Shahari Rojgar Yojana Act which assured 100 days of employment to households residing in city areas, the Rajasthan Platform Based mostly Gig Staff (Registration and Welfare Act), and the Proper to Well being Act which offered common well being protection – all these schemes offered essential protections to weak populations,” he stated.
“As a substitute of those acts being applied, we at the moment are seeing a breakdown of governance for the reason that BJP got here to energy in December 2023,” the Congress chief alleged.
No less than 15.5 lakh pensioners in Rajasthan haven’t obtained their pensions since January this 12 months as a result of “verification” points, he claimed.
The federal government additionally tried to cut back well being protection from Rs 25 lakh beneath the Congress’ Chiranjeevi Yojana to only Rs 5 lakh beneath the BJP’s Ayushman Bharat, Ramesh stated.
“Of their vindictiveness, why is the BJP authorities rolling again the INC’s pro-people schemes? Does PM Modi’s imaginative and prescient contain any protections for weak populations in Rajasthan,” he requested.
The Congress chief additional claimed that Rajasthan’s Orans are beneath risk after the BJP handed a controversial modification to the Forest Conservation Act (FCA) in 2023.
“Orans are neighborhood forests which might be a significant a part of neighborhood life in Rajasthan. Historically seen as sacred, these forests are preserved and managed by rural communities and used for all the things from grazing livestock to internet hosting social occasions and festivals,” he stated.
Underneath the previous FCA, any land that happy the dictionary definition of forest was lined by the Act, he stated and added that the amended FCA goals to nullify this much-celebrated definition. Now, it is going to solely apply to forests which were declared or notified as a forest and people recorded in authorities data on or after October 25, 1980, Ramesh added.
“Whereas Orans have been earlier protected beneath the Act, the amended regulation doesn’t apply to them. They’re now beneath risk of destruction as a result of income data have marked them as wasteland, which is definitely diverted for improvement initiatives,” he stated.
“Whereas the BJP authorities has not too long ago notified Orans as ‘deemed forests’, locals level out that that is fairly counterproductive — communities is not going to solely be stopped from accessing and conserving Orans, the notification additionally doesn’t cease them from being given to firms for non-forest functions. Why has the BJP authorities so overtly stripped safety from Rajasthan’s sacred Orans,” Ramesh requested.
He additionally requested why the Japanese Rajasthan Canal Undertaking (ERCP) has languished for therefore lengthy.
“Villages in Rajasthan are struggling to fulfill their fundamental water wants and girls must stroll a number of kilometres to get water,” the Congress chief stated.
On July 7, 2018 and October 6, 2018, PM Modi had promised to the individuals of Rajasthan that the Japanese Rajasthan Canal Undertaking (ERCP) might be given nationwide challenge standing, he stated.
This designation would have enabled the Centre to bear 90 per cent of the funding prices, he famous.
After the Congress got here to energy in 2018, then-chief minister Ashok Gehlot wrote to the PM on six events, requesting him to fulfil his promise in order that this important infrastructure challenge might start, Ramesh stated.
“Regardless of the PM’s guarantees, the BJP not solely denied nationwide challenge standing, but additionally refused to answer any of Mr Gehlot’s letters. Now, the BJP authorities has unexpectedly pushed the challenge by means of earlier than the election, at huge price to the state exchequer,” he alleged.
Ramesh requested why the prime minister has did not fulfil the promise he made to the individuals of Rajasthan.
“The place is the ‘Double Engine Sarkar’ when Rajasthan actually wants it,” he stated and requested the prime minister to interrupt his “silence” on these points.
“Why is the BJP Authorities rolling again the INC’s pro-people schemes? Does the PM prioritise his businessmen mates over Rajasthan’s rural communities? Why has ERCP not been designated a nationwide challenge but,” Ramesh requested in a submit on X.
Elaborating on what he stated have been “jumla particulars”, Ramesh stated when the Congress was in energy in Rajasthan, it handed a collection of visionary legal guidelines that might meaningfully enhance the standard of lifetime of hundreds within the state.
“The Rajasthan Minimal Assured Revenue Act, the addition of 25 additional days for MGNREGA (Rural) over and above the sanctioned 100 days, the Indira Gandhi Shahari Rojgar Yojana Act which assured 100 days of employment to households residing in city areas, the Rajasthan Platform Based mostly Gig Staff (Registration and Welfare Act), and the Proper to Well being Act which offered common well being protection – all these schemes offered essential protections to weak populations,” he stated.
“As a substitute of those acts being applied, we at the moment are seeing a breakdown of governance for the reason that BJP got here to energy in December 2023,” the Congress chief alleged.
No less than 15.5 lakh pensioners in Rajasthan haven’t obtained their pensions since January this 12 months as a result of “verification” points, he claimed.
The federal government additionally tried to cut back well being protection from Rs 25 lakh beneath the Congress’ Chiranjeevi Yojana to only Rs 5 lakh beneath the BJP’s Ayushman Bharat, Ramesh stated.
“Of their vindictiveness, why is the BJP authorities rolling again the INC’s pro-people schemes? Does PM Modi’s imaginative and prescient contain any protections for weak populations in Rajasthan,” he requested.
The Congress chief additional claimed that Rajasthan’s Orans are beneath risk after the BJP handed a controversial modification to the Forest Conservation Act (FCA) in 2023.
“Orans are neighborhood forests which might be a significant a part of neighborhood life in Rajasthan. Historically seen as sacred, these forests are preserved and managed by rural communities and used for all the things from grazing livestock to internet hosting social occasions and festivals,” he stated.
Underneath the previous FCA, any land that happy the dictionary definition of forest was lined by the Act, he stated and added that the amended FCA goals to nullify this much-celebrated definition. Now, it is going to solely apply to forests which were declared or notified as a forest and people recorded in authorities data on or after October 25, 1980, Ramesh added.
“Whereas Orans have been earlier protected beneath the Act, the amended regulation doesn’t apply to them. They’re now beneath risk of destruction as a result of income data have marked them as wasteland, which is definitely diverted for improvement initiatives,” he stated.
“Whereas the BJP authorities has not too long ago notified Orans as ‘deemed forests’, locals level out that that is fairly counterproductive — communities is not going to solely be stopped from accessing and conserving Orans, the notification additionally doesn’t cease them from being given to firms for non-forest functions. Why has the BJP authorities so overtly stripped safety from Rajasthan’s sacred Orans,” Ramesh requested.
He additionally requested why the Japanese Rajasthan Canal Undertaking (ERCP) has languished for therefore lengthy.
“Villages in Rajasthan are struggling to fulfill their fundamental water wants and girls must stroll a number of kilometres to get water,” the Congress chief stated.
On July 7, 2018 and October 6, 2018, PM Modi had promised to the individuals of Rajasthan that the Japanese Rajasthan Canal Undertaking (ERCP) might be given nationwide challenge standing, he stated.
This designation would have enabled the Centre to bear 90 per cent of the funding prices, he famous.
After the Congress got here to energy in 2018, then-chief minister Ashok Gehlot wrote to the PM on six events, requesting him to fulfil his promise in order that this important infrastructure challenge might start, Ramesh stated.
“Regardless of the PM’s guarantees, the BJP not solely denied nationwide challenge standing, but additionally refused to answer any of Mr Gehlot’s letters. Now, the BJP authorities has unexpectedly pushed the challenge by means of earlier than the election, at huge price to the state exchequer,” he alleged.
Ramesh requested why the prime minister has did not fulfil the promise he made to the individuals of Rajasthan.
“The place is the ‘Double Engine Sarkar’ when Rajasthan actually wants it,” he stated and requested the prime minister to interrupt his “silence” on these points.
