No compromise on battle against corruption: PM
BJP MEET PM also sets up a panel of economic advisors with Debroy as chief
Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a stern message against corruption at the BJP’s national executive meeting on Monday, warning that no financial offender will be spared under his rule.
Addressing the BJP’s national executive and its law- makers from across the country, Modi asked them to take the party beyond elections and make it an instrument of mass participation to improve quality of people’s lives.
Modi’s comments at the closed-door meeting, attended by 13 chief ministers, six deputy chief ministers, over 60 union
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“When opposition was in government, power was a means of enjoyment for it. Now they do not know how to behave as opposition,” Modi told the meeting .
Underlined his resolve to fight corruption, the PM said his “battle against it is uncompromising. No one will be spared. I have no relatives”.
On the day, the PM also set up a panel of economic advisors to help his government analyse and advise on key issues. The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) will be headed by NITI Aayog
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member Bibek Debroy.
At the meeting, BJP chief Amit Shah criticised Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on dynastic politics and said the BJP believed in the politics of performance while the Congress banked on the “politics of appeasement and dynasty”.
In his inaugural address at the BJP national executive, Shah said President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President MVen-
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