Nadda takes out roadshow in Patna, delivers pep talk to BJP workers
PATNA: BJP president JP Nadda on Saturday asserted that it was his party which brought Gandhi’s dream of “Gram Swaraj to fruition” and charged the Congress with having shown a superficial understanding of India in its conception of cooperative farming.
Nadda made the remarks at a “Gram Sansad” where party delegates from across the country were given a pep talk and asked to remember we are the champions of development, in need of no certificate from anybody .
The Gram Sansad was followed by a joint national executive meeting of the BJP’s seven wings (morchas) which will conclude on Sunday with the address of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
In the last eight years, since Narendra Modi assumed power (at the Centre), there has been a five-fold increase in funds allocated for rural development. And as our prime minister says, gone are the days when only 15 paise out of every rupee that was allocated used to reach the intended beneficiaries,” said Nadda, referring to former PM Rajiv Gandhi’s famous statement.
The BJP president appeared to be stressing that his party’s government, which had faced flak over the contentious farm laws, was deeply concerned about the needs of the rural populace and was taking steps for their betterment.
Citing the Modi government’s drives like building toilets on war footing and the Ujjwala yojana, Nadda said gone are the days when women in Bihar used to wait till dusk before they could line up on the roadside to relieve themselves. In my home state of Himachal Pradesh, women no longer climb trees to collect twigs for cooking purposes, which often caused them to trip and fracture their limbs and ribs .
He also showered praise on the Modi administration for its mammoth inoculation drive against COVID-19 and stated with pride that we used to receive vaccines from other countries in the past. Now we have become suppliers.