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Daltonganj, January 8: BJP’s Jharkhand in-charge and chief whip for BJP in Rajya Sabha Dr Laxmikant Vajpayee made an attack on Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren and said on Sunday, “We will go to the Adivasis and tell them how this man has cheated them. We will expose the asatya (untruth) of his governance.”
The senior BJP leader spoke against the Soren government, during which he also made sure to not use any expression which would have been unparliamentary. Commenting over this, Vajpayee said, “Since the word jhoot is termed unparliamentary, I am using asatya in its place.”
Vajpayee made it clear that the BJP has no moves to destabilise the Soren government. “We will take the seats through election,” he clarified.
When a Lagatar correspondent asked the whip about Congress, Vajpayee exclaimed, “Where is the Congress? It is all gone.”
When reminded that the union health minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya had suggested that Rahul Gandhi wind up the Yatra in the wake of the Covid surge in China and if that should mean that the BJP did try to scuttle the Yatra on the pretext of the Covid the veteran BJP leader Vajpayee said, “I wish he has four such Yatras. Our Modi government did an excellent job in the fight against Coronavirus.”
Vajpayee further gave hints of fighting the holes that led to the loss that the BJP found in the last elections in Jharkhand. He said, “We have identified constituencies and booths where the BJP did not fare well and now these will be taken care of.”
“Here, we have just two constituencies including Raj Mahal and Chaibasa that we are focusing on,” he added.
To a question regarding the ticket distribution in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, he said, “In-charge of the state is not fit to speak on this. The central parliamentary election committee would be more suitable for the question.”
Vajpayee said there is a thin line between politics and election and sometimes it appears the two are overlapping but here about Jharkhand he said, “I am to work here under the guidance of the cadres and the organisation and not to flaunt my politics here.”
