Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on August 2 hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for “destroying” the Indian economy by implementing “wrong policies”. He said the saffron party is hell-bent on making India’s condition “worse than neighbouring Pakistan”.
Addressing the Jharkhand assembly on the concluding day of the monsoon session, he accused the ruling party at the Centre of indulging in "vote-bank politics” by dividing people in the name of religion.
“The country is passing through a difficult phase; the economy is in peril, due to the wrong policies of the BJP-led central government. They are hell-bent on making the country's condition worse than Pakistan,” the JMM leader said.
He then went on to talk about BJP’s defeat in the Lok Sabha polls and said the people of Ayodhya gave a befitting reply to the party during the elections for “dividing the country” on religious lines.
Amid protest by BJP members in the House against his comments, Soren also said that India’s assets were being rampantly sold while the lives of farmers were at stake.
(With PTI inputs)
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