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Bhopal: Union Minister of Agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar in his capacity as the convenor of Bharatiya Janata Party’s elections management committee for the general election to the Madhya Pradesh Assembly due later this year asserted here on Monday 28 August that the BJP is committed to the welfare of the deprived sections, Dalits and women and would do every thing in its command to ensure the welfare of those categories that need to be uplifted.Tomar was addressing media-persons at the Kushabhau Thakery Convention Centre in the State capital. When his attention was drawn by Newsroom24x7 to the issue of electoral freebies and to his earlier assertion that 20-years ago, in 2003, when the BJP had trounced the Congress party after 10 years of Digvijay Singh’s rule, Madhya Pradesh was a BIMARU State and now it is turning into a developed state after 20 years of BJP rule, and was asked till ow long the BJP plans to go for elections on the welfare card, especially when the Prime Minister talks of India becoming a developed country by 2047, the Union Agriculture Minister said, in 2003, when he was the Union Minister for Rural Development, they had announced houses for those without shelter. At that time it was a tall order but over a period of time, they have done everything to fulfill their promise, similarly welfare of the deprived sections is their priority, he said adding the goal is to reach the zero stage on this front.

State BJP President, VD Sharma gave a curtain raiser about BJP’s Jan Ashirwad Yatra and said party workers from booth level to the top will join the Yatra being taken out from all corners of the State from first week of September. All State leaders along with Union home Minister Amit Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh would be participating in this Yatra which will stretch over 10,000 kms before converging and concluding in Bhopal on 25 September.