Guwahati : Sounding the election campaign bugle in poll bound Meghalaya Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that, the North East region will become ‘Congress Mukt’ (Congree free) by 2018.
Addressing a public rally held in Meghalaya’s capital city Shillong, PM Modi who visited the state second time said that, the wave for change, which began with the Assam elections, is now reaching Meghalaya.
The assembly poll in the north eastern state will be held early next year.
“15 years of Congress rule has ruined Meghalaya. But now the people of the state want for change. The entire North East region will become Congress Mukt by 2018,” Modi said.
Lashing out at the Congress-led Meghalaya government, Modi said that, the Chief Minister of Meghalaya is a doctor but what is the health sector of the state.
“Why are people not getting proper healthcare? See the record corruption in Meghalaya. Why has the Congress Government in Meghalaya committed so many scams,” Modi questioned.
PM Modi took note of the lack of infrastructure in primary educational institutions and said that, many irregularities were happened in the appointment of teachers.
“Still over 70 per cent primary teachers of the state are untrained. Incompetent people were appointed on the recommendations of Congress MLA and MP. At present there is a shortage of 1,700 teachers in the primary schools of the state. In Meghalaya, there arescams in the meals being given to children,” Modi said.
The PM also blamed the Congress government for not being able to ensure clean drinking water despite being in power for almost 15 years accused them for high rate of unemployment in the state.
Modi further said that, it was time for change in Meghalaya and BJP’s only agenda is development, speedy development and all round development.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
