India has world’s most powerful leader: Maurya

After India and China agreed to end their over twomonth-long standoff in the Doklam plateau, deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Monday said Indian leadership and forces were at their the strongest now.

Speaking at the Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Maurya said: “It’s been 2-3 hours since the Chinese troops have withdrawn from Doklam. We have the most powerful leader in the world. PM Modi’s name is being trumpeted all across the world.”

Maurya, who also spoke at a function to mark the birth centenary celebrations of RSS ideologue Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University here, said India’s neighbours must not underestimate the Indian Army which carried out a surgical strike on areas in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) after the Uri terror attack last year.

Hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Maurya said, “Twenty-eight crore poor people have opened bank accounts under the PM Jan Dhan scheme now.”“Also, two crore poor women are benefitting from the PM Ujwala scheme that provides free LPG cylinders to them. These schemes will benefit the poorest of the poor in the country as per Upadhyay’s teaching,” he said.

Earlier, BJP national joint general secretary Shiv Prakash termed the end of the Doklam standoff as India’s biggest diplomatic victory in recent times.

Prakash, a Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) nominee in the BJP, said this while inaugurating Upadhyay’s birth centenary celebrations at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University here.

The BJP leader warned China not to mistake the India of 2017 with that of 1962.

“The Indian Army is ready to take on Chinese forces and is not scared to engage itself in war with their troops,” he said.Talking about Deen Dayal Upadhyay, Prakash said his philosophy of ‘antyodaya’ meant uplift of the society’s weakest section.

He also said, “Welfare of the poorest of the poor is the essence of Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyay’s philosophy of antyodaya.”

The PM had given a call to free the country from all evils like caste and religion divide, poverty and discriminatory politics. KESHAV PRASAD MAURYA, Dy CM