BJP promises are like bamboo -- very long but hollow from inside: Cong

The Congress Monday alleged none of the Modi government's flagship schemes has met its target and said the Prime Minister "will sink in his own wave of lies".

Addressing a press conference at the Congress headquarters here, party leader Navjot Singh Sidhu shared details about various schemes of the BJP government.

"I am keeping the truth of flagship programs in front of you. The Prime Minister will sink in his own wave of lies. It is a guarantee," he said.

"All the work remains incomplete but the lies are complete. Their promises are like a bamboo -- very long but hollow from inside," he added.

Talking first about the "Rs 20,000-crore" Namami Gange scheme launched in 2015, Sidhu said that Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari had claimed that 80 per cent of Ganga cleaning work will be completed by 2019.

"Out of Rs 20,000 crore earmarked for the scheme, only Rs 6,000 crore has been spent. Only 10 per cent of the sewage treatment plants have been made. The Ganga is most unclean in Varanasi," Sidhu claimed.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi represents Varanasi in the Lok Sabha. He also contesting the 2019 election from the constituency.

Sidhu said, "The National Ganges Council was supposed to meet once a year. The PM is its chairman and the CMs of the five states that have Ganga basin are its members. This Council has not met even once in last five years."
About Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, Sidhu said, "In phase 3, 78 per cent of the 786 MPs (Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha) have not adopted any village...46 per cent of the Union ministers have not identified any village. The scheme does not have any budgetary allocation."
Sindhu also alleged that out of Rs 684 crore allocated under the "Beti Padhao, Beti Bachao" scheme, 56 per cent of the money has been used in advertisements featuring the PM. "Only 25 per cent of the funds have gone to the states. 19 per cent of funds have not been issued."
About Fasal Bima Yojana, Sidhu said it is "even a bigger scam than Rafale scam". "I am saying it categorically."