The resolution, passed at the party national executive, borrows heavily from Madhav’s piece that extolled the Modi government.
New Delhi: The BJP’s political resolution, passed at the national executive meet Sunday, has turned out to be largely a copy-and-paste job, with sections lifted directly from party general secretary Ram Madhav’s article published in the Times of India on 7 July.
Several sentences and even paragraphs of his article find a place in the BJP’s 10-page Resolution on New India, with minor tweaks. Madhav had written the post under the title, A new India is rising: PM Modi and the NDA government are working hard to get us there by 2022. It sought to highlight the Modi government’s achievements.
Sample this:
The political resolution: A 19-year-old college graduate in a small village in Rajasthan, fired by the zeal to innovate, is running a tractor by remote control in his small farm sitting under a tree… (he) says that he and his other farmers in the village need no longer toil in scorching sun to till their lands.”
TOI article: 19-year-old young college graduate from a small village in Punjab, fired by the zeal to innovate, remotely runs a tractor in his small farmland sitting under a tree nearby. He says that he and other farmers in the village need no longer toil in scorching sun to till their lands.
The resolution mentions the daughter of a rickshaw-puller and a madrasa teacher getting impressive ranks in civil services examination. These too were part of Madhav’s article. Another example, common to both, is the mention of the six-member all-women Navy crew of the sailboat, INSV Tarini, which is circumnavigating the globe.
There are several other instances of the copy-and-paste job in the political resolution.
Ram Madhav, however, made light of it, telling ThePrint that he was also the one who had drafted the political resolution. The resolution, presented by Union home minister Rajnath Singh, had been discussed and passed by the national executive in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah.
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Here are more examples:
The political resolution: LPG cooking stoves of our poor rural households. We have done away with the hazardous coal and wood-based cooking for our womenfolk, by supplying LPG connections to more than 5 crore households. We have electrified all the 597,464 villages… While 99% of urban households have electricity connection, the share of rural households having an electricity connection has risen from 55% in 2011-end to 88% currently.
TOI article: It is rising out of the environment-friendly LPG gas stoves of our rural poor households; we have done away with hazardous coal and wood-based cooking for our womenfolk by supplying LPG cylinders to more than 41 million households. It is rising out of the newly electrified remote villages of India; we have electrified all 5,97,464 villages and 99% urban and 87% rural households in the country.
The political resolution: A New India is rising on the able shoulder, and out of the skilled hands of millions of young men and women, especially the SCs and STs. We have extended soft loans to over 7 crore of them through MUDRA Yojana; A new, confident, and well-skilled India is rising out of 20 AIIMS, 22 IITs and 20 IIMs
TOI article: It is rising on the able shoulders of millions of young men and women, especially the SCs and STs; we have extended soft loans to over 70 million of them through Mudra Yojana. A new, confident and well-trained India is rising; out of 20 AIIMS, 22 IITs and 20 IIMs that produce thousands of highly skilled doctors and engineers.
The political resolution: We have built over 120,000 KM of highways in last 4 years, almost doubling the existing network.
TOI article: We have built over 1,20,000 km of highways in the last four years, almost doubling the existing network.
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The political resolution: We are building 101 smart cities. We have already built metro train services in 10 cities; and another 5 cities will be added very soon. Urban connectivity has been totally transformed; electric public transport is the next priority for our government to build a pollution-free India.
TOI article: We are building 101 smart cities. We have already built Metro train services in ten cities; another five cities will be added very soon. Urban connectivity has been totally transformed; electric public transport is the next priority for the government to build a pollution-free India.
The political resolution: We have revolutionised the IT sector through Digital India Campaign; the JAM trinity – Jan Dhan, Aadhar and Mobile, has transformed the lives of ordinary Indians.
TOI article: We have revolutionised the IT sector through Digital India campaign; the JAM trinity – Jan Dhan, Aadhaar and Mobile – has transformed the lives of ordinary Indians.
The political resolution: We are going to launch Chandrayan 2 later this year and a unique solar mission called Aditya-L1 next year. With almost 12 launches in as many number of months in this year, our ISRO is adding new feathers to its glory on a monthly basis.
TOI article: We are going to launch Chandrayaan 2 later this year and a unique solar mission called Aditya-L1 next year. With almost 12 launches in as many number of months in this year, our Isro is adding new feathers to its glory on a monthly basis
The political resolution: The Prime Minister undertook the task of setting its basics right. It called for some harsh action, the kind that the Austrian-American economist Joseph Schumpeter called ‘creative destruction’. Schumpeter described it as the “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionises the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one”.
TOI article: The PM undertook the task of setting its basics right. It called for some harsh action that the economist Joseph Schumpeter has called “creative destruction”, or the “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionises the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one”.
The political resolution: Corruption, once endemic to Indian system has largely disappeared from public domain. The corrupt today have to run, to use the metaphor, from pillar to post, ‘from Hong Kong to London’. They may remain fugitives for sometime, but they must have to return, to join their comrades in the Ranchi jail… The Prime Minister has given a call to the entire nation for building a New India by 2022, when India completes 75 years of its Independence – a New India free of homelessness, joblessness, poverty and disease; A New India that is united, prosperous, confident and happy.
TOI article: Corruption, once endemic to the Indian system, has largely disappeared from the public domain. The corrupt have to run today from pillar to post, ‘from Hong Kong to London’. They may remain fugitives for some time but they will have to return, to join their comrades in Ranchi jail. The PM has given a call to showcase a new India by the 75th year of its Independence in 2022 – free of homelessness, joblessness, poverty and disease; united, rich, confident and happy.
Did we expect anything better from BJP/RSS? People in the party and Sangh are expected to suspend thinking so that they don’t run the risk of saying the truth. They all speak the same language – shout at others – abuse others – troll others. It is a bunch of self-serving (or may be they are serving their masters elsewhere in the world in the name of nationalism) politicians (with a capital P) pretending to do desh-seva. Shah-Modi arrogance is visible all the time.
When we were caught copying in class test, the teacher would rightly say Nakal Karnay Kay Liyay Akal chahiyay