BHOPAL: State BJP vice-president and MP from Sagar, Bhupendra Singh, on Sunday said that the party will bring-up the issue of special package for Bundelkhand in the upcoming winter session in Parliament. After the Uttar Pradesh elections, both the Union government and AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi's attention are no longer focused on Bundelkhand. For the Congress, Bundelkhand package was no development issue but a political compulsion,'' Bhupendra Singh said.
The Lok Sabha MP from Sagar, argued that since independence the Bundelkhand region has been continuously exploited and neglected which is the vital reason behind the backwardness of the region. Bhupendra Singh's constituency is an integral portion of Madhya Pradesh part of Bundelkhand region. Singh said that the special package should be increased for the development of the region.
Much of Bundelkhand's agriculture was dependent on the monsoons and repeated failure of rains have adversely affected the economy of the region,'' he said. But since the BJP has come to power in the state, irrigation of the region has increased from 3 per cent to 30 per cent. In the past four years, the Bundelkhand districts of the state have grown an impressive yield of wheat, the credit of which should go to the efforts of the BJP government. Farmers are much relieved with the present wheat harvests,'' he claimed.
Singh further alleged that the Union government changes rules and guidelines each time the state asks for developmental funds. The Centre also gets elusive when funds for Bundelkhand are to be released. To develop the Bundelkhand region, the Centre needs to join hands with the state government and cooperate in the development of the region, he added.
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