Even as pre-poll surveys suggest public sentiment is with Chhattisgarh CM Raman Singh for upcoming assembly elections, has all what he promised in his election manifestos been implemented by the state BJP government. Definitely, the food security policy has got him accolades with tribals recognising him as 'chawal waley baba'.
But a revision of the earlier manifestoes with the recent one highlights how he might have failed in delivering most of what was promised to the people of the state, except for the Food Security Act which provides for 35 kg of food grain to each family. Take a look:
In 2008, collective insurance for rickshaw-pullers, auto-rickshaw drivers and other similar unorganised sector workers was promised. Failed to have implemented it in the state, Raman Singh has promised it again in his 2013 election manifesto.
Similarly, claims of building women's market, science museum and a stadium in every district has not materialised in the state inspite of repeated promises to simply garner votes during elections.
One of the most crucial things that the Naxal-infested state was looking up to was BJP's government's assurance to curb migration and free the state from Naxal fear. However, with the increasing and even more well-organised Naxal attacks in the recent past, those claims stand void. It is this factor that Congress is trying best to tap and hence win the confidence of the tribal vote bank for a possible win in the upcoming Chhattisgarh assembly elections.
The list of tall claims by BJP doesn't end here. Other things that were promised but not delivered were free 5 hp electricity and interest free loan for farmers, 100% insurance for landless labourers, connection of all villages with concrete road and construction of community centres, a backward class development authority, attempts to bring Metro trains for Raipur-Durg-Rajnandgaon and Raipur-Bilaspur, malnutrition to be eradicated.
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