02 May,2024 06:37 PM IST | Latur | mid-day online correspondent
Nana Patole. File Pic
The Centre-led by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has robbed the people through the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and ruined the country by selling public enterprises in the past ten years, Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole has claimed, according to the PTI.
Speaking with the media persons in Maharashtra's Latur district on Wednesday, Nana Patole said that there is a lot of resentment among the masses against the Centre and therefore, the BJP's defeat in Lok Sabha elections 2024 is inevitable, as per the PTI.
In the Latur Lok Sabha seat, the BJP has renominated its sitting MP Sudhakar Shrangare, while the Congress has fielded a fresh face in Dr Shivaji Kalge, an eye surgeon.
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"... Instead of criticising former PM Dr Manmohan Singh, the BJP should explain what steps it has taken to improve the country's economy in the last ten years," he said, according to the PTI.
India's economy was much better during former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's tenure, he said.
"The process for the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections 2024 has started. People express anger and resentment against the BJP. The youth is upset with the BJP. The INDIA bloc's candidates will win all the 48 seats in Maharashtra," he claimed, the news agency reported on Thursday.
Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole further said that the BJP leaders do not talk about atrocities on women, farmers suicide, and increased unemployment in the state.
"They are just telling fibs to pass the time...people will now teach the BJP a lesson," Nana Patole said, attacking the ruling party over electoral bonds and demonetisation.
While the rich and industrialists are being spared, taxes and the burden of GST are being indirectly imposed on the common people, Nana Patole said, the PTI report stated.
Nana Patole also slammed Maharashtra Chief Minster Eknath Shinde for 'defaming' the 'Latur Pattern', which sees students from the state's Latur division topping various school exams.
Meanwhile, the government has declared May 7, a public holiday in 11 constituencies of Maharashtra, including Latur, where voting will be held in the third phase that day.
(with PTI inputs)
