Bhubaneswar : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday attacked the Biju Janta Dal (BJD)-ruled state government and alleged that the claims of 20 lakh housing as made by the state government in newspaper advertisements are half-baked.
The party also dared the incumbent BJD government in the state to make public how many out the 20 lakh claims were done through central government schemes. Addressing a press conference in the state capital BJP state spokesperson Golak Mohapatra, while making his accusations, also said that the Chief Minister is a ‘trader of falsehood’ for furnishing fake information.
“How can you claim that these housing targets were achieved by you alone? A large number of them were done under central government schemes. The claimed figures are misleading and the Chief Minister is a trader of falsehood. I dare them to make public how much of the houses were constructed out of 20 lakh by the central schemes,” Mohapatra asked.
He expressed apprehensions on the data claimed by BJD. Mohapatra said, “If we go by the Assembly statement of 2017 it was claimed that around 27 lakh people from the state are still deprived of housing. In 2018 it was said that state government has constructed around 3 lakh houses through state scheme and others were done through central schemes.”
The BJP leader said that the Chief Minister in January, 2018, had said that the Biju Pucca Ghar Yojana was started in 2014-15. If we go through the Assembly statement of 2015, only 57,538 houses were made through the scheme, in 2016 it said data was being studied.
The leaders said that the data given by the state government in the last few years hints that the claims of the government under the housing schemes are misleading as it includes the credits of housing undertaken under central schemes.