Chhattisgarh polls: BJP short on facts and big on rhetoric, says PM at Congress meet

Raipur: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed Congress workers in election-bound Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur today. Here are the highlights of Dr Singh's address:

• I need to warn the nation of parties like the BJP who are misleading people under the veil of secularism.
• Nine years of UPA rule has led to rural development
• Right to Education act led to empowerment
• Congress party is committed to development of Chhattisgarh
• Cong will never bow to the threat of Naxalism
• The National Rural Health Mission has improved the condition of people in villages.
• We will never resort to cheap politics like the BJP
• BJP is short on facts and big on rhetoric.
• BJP govt in Chhattisgarh has failed completely
• BJP doesn't deserve to come to power
• 14 districts in Chhattisgarh are getting special assistance from the Centre to fight poverty and Maoism
• Centre sends large amounts of money to Chhattisgarh to deal with Naxalism, but the money is never used properly
• We need to beware of communal forces
• Congress will never use bad language
• Centre is concentrating on rural, poor districts. Special assistance is being given to such districts in Chhattisgarh