CM Ashok Gehlot takes on BJP: Words buy no barley

JAIPUR: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday claimed that the BJP will break up after being voted out of power in the forthcoming parliamentary elections as the party is being hijacked by two individuals. He said recent statements of BJP Union minister Nitin Gadkari indicated that BJP leaders are disenchanted with the leadership and would desert the party. “People have understood that mere words buy no barley. No concrete work was done by the saffron party,” Gehlot told reporters at PCC headquarters, after paying tributes to deceased former state Congress president Shobha Ram.

Speaking on the BJP's preparations in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Gehlot said the BJP has ‘money power'’ but no ‘moral power’. “People in BJP have started believing that only two persons - Amit Shah and Narendra Modi - are running the show and not the BJP,” he said.

He alleged that the BJP gave five years of misrule to the state and failed to fulfil promises it made before coming to power at the Centre. “They are exposed. They could not fulfill any of the promises. Since they have no answers, they started attacking the Congress president. You will see a wave in favour of Congress,” he claimed.

On the alleged irregularities in loan waiver scheme announed by the previous BJP government that crores of money have been siphoned off in names of farmers who never took loans featured in a list of beneficiaries in Dungarpur district, he said it was a scam of the previous BJP government.He said, his government will look into the alleged scams of the previous BJP government.