If welfare schemes could be dubbed revri, mortgage waivers for industrialists is allotting rabri, says CM Bhupesh Baghel
If welfare schemes could be dubbed revri, mortgage waivers for industrialists is allotting rabri, says CM Bhupesh Baghel
Amid the continued debate on revri, i.e. distributing freebies for votes, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Saturday stated mortgage waivers for industrialists was akin to allotting “ rabri” to them.
“I need to ask after we give mortgage waivers to our farmers right here, you name them revri however when loans amounting to 10 trillion rupees are waived off for ten industrialists, that’s rabri being served to them,” stated the Chief Minister, referring to the favored Indian milk-based dessert.
Mr. Baghel was addressing a gathering after inaugurating Khairagarh-Chhuikhadan-Gandai district because the thirty first district of the State. Itemizing out among the welfare measures taken up by his Congress authorities, he questioned the logic of dubbing such measures as revri.
“After we purchase paddy at ₹2,500 a quintal or pay ₹7,000 yearly to labourers, it’s known as revri,” he stated, stating that different schemes providing subsidy on electrical energy payments or free schooling to kids had been additionally ridiculed as such.
In July, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had stated that there have been some [State] governments indulging in revri tradition to safe votes. Ever since then, representatives of a number of State governments dominated by events aside from Mr. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Social gathering have criticised the assertion on numerous boards, whereas some have even identified to the assorted subsidy programmes in BJP-ruled States.
Mr. Baghel himself has been vocal in opposition to any solutions of chopping down on this purported revris.
