The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) national president JP Nadda on Tuesday said that the Central Government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was committed to ensuring speedy development in Himachal Pradesh. Nadda was addressing a rally of party workers at Jassur, during his visit to the hill state.
The BJP leader said that the BJP-led NDA government had constructed 13,525 kilometres of road in border areas and 3.28 lakh kilometres of rural roads. Nadda inaugurated the BJP’s new district office at Nurpur in Kangra district and virtually inaugurated the party’s Palampur office as well.
He said that it was Prime Minister Modi’s vision that the BJP have its own offices across the country and that former party president Amit Shah had planned to construct a total of 887 offices. The party now has eight offices in Himachal Pradesh. The BJP President attacked the Congress party and its “family-oriented” politics, calling it a “dynastic party of maa, beta and beti” and stated that it had no solid ideologies and was therefore “ready to make any compromise to grab power”. Comparing the “cadre-based BJP” with the “family-oriented non-BJP parties”, Nadda said: “There is no party in which a worker can become the Prime Minister of the country. Neither is there any other political outfit wherein a simple party worker like me can become its president.” He then stated that the BJP was the largest political party in the world with 18 crore members. He said, “The party had passed a resolution at Palampur over three decades ago for the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya and it would be ready by the beginning of next year. Similarly, the party scrapped Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019. It reflects our commitment to our party’s ideology.”
Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur, who was also present, said that the Union Government had provided clean, transparent and corruption-free governance. Thakur also attacked the Trinamool government in Bengal, saying violence, anarchy, corruption and politics of appeasement have become the “new normal” under Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee. Jai Ram Thakur, Leader of the Opposition, said that the Central Government had given several projects to Himachal Pradesh in the past nine years. He added that the Congress government, which recently completed six months, had failed on all fronts and development had come to a standstill. “The state government has failed to fulfil poll promises such as 300 units of free electricity to every household, Rs 1,500 per month to every eligible woman between 18 and 60 years of age and purchase cow and buffalo milk and cow dung from farmers,” he added.
