Modi wasting Gujarat money on Bihar ads: Congress

GANDHINAGAR - Leader of Opposition in the Gujarat assembly Shaktisinh Gohil Saturday accused Chief Minister Narendra Modi of wasting crores of rupees of public money by placing advertisements in Bihar’s newspapers to coincide with his visit to the state.

“He has no right to spend crores of rupees of the people of the state during his political visit to Bihar,” Gohil said in a statement issued here Saturday.

Gohil alleged Modi had placed the advertisements seeking to portray the development of women of a particular caste in Gujarat but the picture in the advertisement is not of Gujarat but of some other state.

He said that during his visit to other states the Gujarat chief minister boasts that the farmers of Gujarat are so prosperous that they buy a new car every year while the fact is that that the VAT and surcharge on fertilizer and seeds is the highest in Gujarat.

“For years now, the farmers are waiting for meterless power connections while the funds for farmers are being wasted on Krishi Raths which have become a tool of publicity for the chief minister,” he added.