Responding to a question about BJP’s allegation that Congress and other parties encouraged infiltration in Jharkhand in a planned manner, Pilot asked, “Who is responsible for protecting the country’s borders? They are levelling allegations by shirking away their own responsibilities.”He alleged that the BJP raises issues like ‘one election, one nation’, cows and Gods before elections just for votes and never talks about its performance in the areas of industrialisation, jobs, roads and water.Asked about the culture of freebies and former Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s popular scheme ‘Ladli Behna Yojana’, Pilot asked if the scheme was so good then why Chavan was removed as the CM.On the one hand, Pilot said, BJP describes freebies as ‘revdi’ and on the other, it wants to take credit for providing free ration to 80 crore people in the country.If Congress and other parties want to help the deprived sections of society then it is termed ‘revdiyan’ despite the fact that when they do such things they call themselves ‘annadata’ and ’daandata’, he quipped.Pilot said that though there is a double-engine government (same party at the state and Centre), unemployment is still rising in MP and farmers are dying by suicide.”Who will stop it?” he asked.Answering a question about Jammu and Kashmir, he said that the state should get full statehood and added that the elections were held there on the directives of the Supreme Court and not by the BJP-led government at the Centre.
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