BJP president says that the difference between Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi is that the former follows the party and the latter leads the party.
New Delhi: The Congress is “breaking India” while the BJP is “making India”, BJP president Amit Shah said Saturday, slamming the opposition party for doing “vote-bank politics” by its support to “urban Naxals”.
In his inaugural address at the party’s national executive meeting in New Delhi, he said that the opposition Congress “identifies itself with breaking groups” and praised Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis for his government’s crackdown on alleged Urban Naxal. His remarks indicated the ruling party’s plan to pin the opposition down on the issue of national security in the run-up to the assembly elections in four states in November followed by the general elections.
The party has decided to celebrate the anniversary of surgical strikes on terror camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir as ‘Shaurya Diwas’.
Defence minister and senior BJP leader Nirmala Sitharaman briefed the media about the BJP president’s inaugural address at the two-day meet that started at the newly-built Ambedkar Bhawan here Saturday.
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The National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam could be part of this national security plank as Shah vowed to implement the NRC and not allow “a single new infiltrators”. Stating the party’s commitment to the passage of the citizenship (amendment) bill, he said that if Hindus, Christians, Jews, and Jains faced problems in Afghanistan Pakistan and Bangladesh and sought refuge in India, the country “must” give it.
Shah asserted that the party would contest the 2019 general elections with the NDA government’s achievements as its central plank and would return with “a bigger majority”. He exhorted party workers to go to the people to expose the “lies” of the so-called ‘mahagathbandhan’ or grand alliance of opposition parties, saying that it is based on “dhakosala” (eyewash), “bhranti” (delusion) and “jhooth” (falsehood).
“Whichever parties are part of this mahagathbandhan today had been defeated by the BJP in 2014. This mahagathbandhan is not going to make any difference,” Sitharaman quoted Shah as saying at the national executive meet.
Lauding the achievements of the NDA government, Shah exhorted party workers to “challenge Chidambaram & Co” with facts to come for a debate.
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BJP is not making in India it is faking India by mere illusion. Good orator and cunning Shah is presently creating a mayajal.