BJP hell-bent on making India's condition worse than Pakistan: Hemant Soren
BJP for «destroying» the Indian economy through «wrong policies», Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Friday said the saffron party was hell-bent on making the country's condition «worse than neighbouring Pakistan». Addressing the assembly on the concluding day of the monsoon session, he accused the BJP of playing «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,» Soren said.
He also said the people of Ayodhya gave a befitting reply to the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls for «dividing the country» on religious lines.
On the Centre's 'Agnipath' scheme, Soren said youths enrolled in it will become «jobless after four years», but the Jharkhand government will provide grants to their kin in case of their death, and compensatory jobs to the family members.
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Amid protest by BJP members who trooped into the well of the House against his comments, Soren alleged the country's assets were being rampantly sold while farmers' lives were at stake.
Continuing his attack on the saffron camp, the chief minister said «it is a matter of investigation» as to how much land was «looted by the BJP» in the last five years in the state.
«They indulged in land loot and sent me behind bars by hatching a conspiracy, misusing
