Corruption-free India by 2022: BJP resolve
As it sets out to design the contours of a ‘New India by 2022’, as envisioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP has set itself the ambitious task of ridding the country of poverty, terrorism, casteism, communalism and corruption.
On Monday, a political resolution, passed at the party’s national executive meeting, underscored the need for eradicating the six ills, particularly terrorism and corruption, to help India emerge as a new nation by the time it completes 75 years of its Independence.
The course for this transformation will be anchored in the ‘Sankalp se Sidhi’ programme, which is based on the premise that if 125 crore Indians adopt the pledge of ‘new India’, “nobody can stop it from becoming a reality”, union minister Nitin Gadkari told mediapersons.
He said the party was committed to making India poverty-free by 2022, offering all citizens a house to live in, proper healthcare and education and opportunities for self employment.
“The sign of a good society and a prosperous nation is cleanliness. The PM has shaped the Swacha Bharat Abhiyan as a public movement by connecting it with moral responsibility of every citizen,” Gadkari said.
The party’s zero tolerance towards terrorism was iterated at the meeting of the national executive, which witnessed a special presentation by general secretary and in-charge of J&K, Ram Madhav on the government’s initiatives to weed out terrorism from the state.
The party, which has often been accused by the Opposition of being anti-dalits and other minorities, reiterated that there is no rethink on the reservation for SC/STs and OBCs in educations and job sectors; instead the government is keen to give the national commission for OBCs more teeth by way of constitutional status.
Communal harmony is also on the agenda. “We will get rid of the politics of vote bank appeasement and polarisation; and supporting and felicitating terror groups...” Gadkari said.
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