PM MODI TAKES ONUS FOR DENYING TICKETS TO CHILDREN OF BJP LEADERS

There will be no place for dynastic politics in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the family led political parties will continue to be challenged, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday told the Parliamentary party meeting, adding that he takes onus for denying tickets to children of the party leaders in the recently concluded Assembly elections, sources said.

The Prime Minister applauded the party leaders for the victory of the BJP in four out of five states which went to the polls recently. It was also reliably learnt that the major focus of the Prime Minister in his speech was on the ills of the dynastic politics, with sources saying that he ensured that tickets were denied to a number of claims made by the party leaders for their children in the states where the elections were held. The message needs to go to people that family and dynastic politics are not leading the country anywhere, sources quoted PM Modi as having told the Parliamentary party meeting, which was held at the Ambedkar Bhavan.

“Several members of Parliament and party leaders were seeking tickets in the recently concluded elections for their children and many of them were denied. For those who are not given tickets for the children, the responsibility entirely lies with me,” the Prime Minister is learnt to have said in the meeting.

The Prime Minister further said that increasing “Parivarad (dynastic politics)” leads to casteism, sources added. Sending a strong message, PM Modi said that the BJP is fighting dynastic politics, and it was important that the party leads by example, sources said.

Several times in the past, including in Parliamentary party meetings, the Prime Minister has hit out at the Gandhi family for promoting dynastic politics while lacking credentials. PM Modi also gave an account of the evacuation of the stranded Indians from Ukraine in the meeting, sources added. The meeting took place at the Ambedkar Centre on Janpath road due to the ongoing repair work in the Parliament library building.

Meanwhile, days after a row erupted on “The Kashmir Files”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the BJP Parliamentary meeting said that “people have tried to suppress what is shown in the film”, sources said. Saying the film has “shown the truth which is being suppressed for years”, the Prime Minister said “such movies should be made more often”. PM Modi said, “What happened to Kashmiri Pandits in 1990, that truth was hidden, but today it is in front of everyone. Today the whole world is watching what pain Kashmiri Pandits have suffered.”

The film “The Kashmir Files”, directed by Vivek Agnihotri, narrates the painful and heart-wrenching stories of Kashmiri Pandits who were forced to leave their homes and live like refugees in their own country.

The film has received positive reviews from not only the viewers but also by Prime Minister Modi. The team of “The Kashmir Files” recently met PM Modi and received appreciation for the film.