Modi calls for ‘fulfilment’ instead of ‘appeasement’
HYDERABAD: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that the goal of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was to take India from “tushtikaran” (appeasement) to “triptikaran” (fulfilment), a remark he made on the concluding day of the party’s two-day national executive council meeting.
The Prime Minister told his party colleagues that they must learn from the mistakes of dynastic parties that are facing “existential crisis” and that the BJP’S aim should be pro-people and proactive good governance. He was addressing the concluding session of the key meeting in Hyderabad ahead of a clutch of state elections.
Modi also called upon BJP workers to strive to make India “shreshtha” (great) and emphasised on qualities such as restraint and coordination among them. He asked party members to undertake “Sneh Yatras” and reach out to all sections of the society.
“The PM said parties that have ruled for years are fighting for their existence; this terminal decline of their identity should not be a reason for cheer or humour for us but should give us a commitment not to commit the same mistakes,” senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said while addressing reporters about Modi’s speech.
The PM instructed the party to follow “P2 to G2, which is propeople, proactive good governance”
and said the BJP’S aim should be “from appeasement to fulfilment”, Prasad said.
Prasad said the PM also asked BJP MPS and MLAS to ensure that their votes for Droupadi Murmu were cast as per procedure so that not a single vote was invalid. The presidential election is on July 18.
The Prime Minister has been underlining the decline of dynastic politics in the county and has stressed on discouraging the promotion of family members within the party. In meetings with his party colleagues, he has often stressed that the electorate does not want to support parties that give priority to dynastic politics.
Amid accusations by its opponents of following a policy of majoritarianism, the BJP has also been asserting that it does not believe in appeasement of any section of society but believes in justice for all.
Later in the day, while addressing a rally in Secunderabad after the culmination of the BJP meet, the Prime Minister said that the people of Telangana were paving the way for the BJP’S double-engine government in the state. The Telangana assembly elections are scheduled to be held in 2023, with experts saying that Modi’s remarks sounded the poll bugle in the state