Taking schemes to masses will help BJP win polls: PM

New Delhi, Feb. 9: Prime Minister Na rend ra Modi on Friday asked the BJP MPs to take welfare schemes announced in the Budget to the masses, saying that popularising them would lead to the party winning in the polls, according to leaders present at the meeting.

The MPs’ success is linked to the party’s performance, the Prime Minister told the BJP parliamentary meeting, the leaders said.

Party president Amit Shah also spoke at the meeting and blamed Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s “undemocratic” politics for his party members heckling the Prime Minister during his speech in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.

PM Modi dwelt at length on the Union Budget, calling it especially positive for farmers and the poor while citing the announcement of a health insurance scheme for 10 crore families, parliamentary affairs minister Ananth Kumar told reporters.

Mr Modi asked MPs to inform the masses about various pro- people features of the Budget.

The Prime Minister also asked the gathering to hold meetings at booths to take various welfare schemes announced in the Budget to people and run intensive campaigns to propagate them, Kumar said.

Some leaders present in the meeting later said the Prime Minister underlined the importance of popularising these schemes for winning polls and told them that their win was linked to the party’s victory.