Agartala, Jan 12: BJP’s National President J.P. Nadda on Thursday lambasted Congress and CPI-M leaders for alleged corruption and incompetence of their governance and asked them to take rest at home for a while and let BJP continue its unabated developmental work.

Addressing a rally in Agartala, Nadda said that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi himself had confessed that 85 per cent of central fund was siphoned off before it reached to the grassroots while Rs 2,000 was directly deposited to the accounts of thousands of farmers’ bank accounts within 15 second after Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushed the button.

Promising better governance after BJP came to power again in Tripura after the forthcoming assembly polls, the BJP President said the Prime Minister has promised HIRA (Highway, I-way, Railway and Airway) to Tripura before the 2018 assembly polls. He said that in 2018, Tripura had only one national highway but now the state has seven national highways; there was no facility for health care service and people used to go outside for treatment but today the state has seven big hospitals with all kinds of facilities.

Along with the rest of the country, Tripura’s connectivity problem has also improved to a large extent during the past five years and very soon the state would be connected with the neighbouring countries.

Highlighting Modi government’s eight years of performance, the former Union Health Minister said that from six, India now has 23 AIIMS and number of medical colleges increased to over 700 from 387 while the number of medical seats increased to 80,000 from 30,000. He said that the number of IITs increased from 16 to 23 and the number of universities increased to 1050 from 723.

“Nobody could imagine that higher education including medical education could be possible in mother tongue. India earlier imported 92 per cent mobile sets and the country is now in second position in the world in making mobile sets. In the automobile industry, India is now in third position after the USA and China,” the BJP leader stated.

He said that after Covid-19 pandemic, within nine months the Modi government produced two Covid vaccines. India has supplied Covid vaccines to many countries. With the able leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India is now giving many things to many countries instead of taking many items from abroad, Nadda said.

Thursday’s gathering was organised at the end of the state wide ‘Rath Yatra’, which was flagged off by the Union Home Minister Amit Shah on January 5. After traversing the 1,000 km route covering all the 60 Assembly constituencies in the state, the eight-day long Yatra culminated in Agartala on Thursday.

Tripura BJP President Rajib Bhattacharjee said that the Rath Yatra titled ‘Jana Vishwas Yatra’ was a part of the party’s mission to connect with around 10 lakh people across the state. He said two chariots moved from South Tripura and North Tripura districts on January 5.

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, former Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb and several central and state leaders participated in the Rath Yatra.