In welfare pitch, BJP slams ‘family politics’
HYDERABAD: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief JP Nadda hit out at dynastic politics as a twoday meet of the party’s national executive began in Hyderabad on Saturday, bringing in focus a key plank on which the ruling party plans to take on the Opposition in the build-up to the 2024 elections.
Lashing out at opposition parties for trying to “mislead” the nation, the BJP president said they have played a “destructive role” and tried to create impediments in the development and welfare agenda.
In the inaugural address of the meet, which is being attended by the BJP’S top brass, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Nadda said that opposition parties, in their zeal to criticise the PM, are opposing the country by going after the government’s good measures and schemes.
“When the BJP is in power, it empowers the poor and when the Opposition is in power, it empowers families,” Nadda said while addressing party workers.
His statement was in line with PM Modi’s instruction to his party colleagues in the past to flag the perils of dynastic politics. Senior leaders of the party said the dynastic politics-versus-merit debate will be key in the party’s electoral campaign for the 2024 general elections and a clutch of upcoming state elections.
The BJP national executive also passed an economic and “garib kalyan” resolution at the meet on Saturday. While Union minister Rajnath Singh proposed it, Piyush Goyal and Manohar Lal Khattar seconded the resolution.
Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan said the economic resolution acknowledged the government’s “gareeb kalyan sankalp (resolve to empower the poor)”.
While the Opposition has been critical about the government’s economic policies, Pradhan said the government has already promised government sector jobs. “In the coming years we will create 10 lakh jobs in the government sector… Agnipath has been appreciated.
Implantation of the Gati Shakti will also help create jobs, exports are also going up in the global services sector and in the metal sector,” he said.
Addressing mediapersons, Pradhan said that while the Covid-19 pandemic set off a global economic crisis, India managed to take care of the poor through a slew of social welfare schemes. He said the government’s work in the past eight years has emerged as a “global model”.