more-inRajasthan Pradesh Congress president Sachin Pilot on Friday flayed the “continuing silence” of the ruling BJP leaders on the suicides by debt-ridden farmers and the rising fuel prices. Pilot addressed the booth-level Congress party workers at a ‘Mera Booth, Mera Gaurav’ (my booth, my pride) programme in Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje’s Assembly constituency of Jhalrapatan. He said the “abdication of duty” by the BJP government had increased the responsibility of Congress, for which the “people’s issues were of paramount importance”. “In order to divert people’s attention from the issues directly affecting them, the ruling BJP is dividing them on the basis of religion and caste,” he said. Pilot said the booth-level workers would strengthen the Congress in the remote areas and help raise people’s issues at all forums in order to force the government to come up with solutions.

Source: The Hindu May 25, 2018 20:15 UTC