Says country will develop rapidly under PM, Amit Shah’s leadership
Seconding the resolution of Union Minister Arun Jaitley naming Amit Shah as the new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president during the national council meeting of the party at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi on Saturday, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan lauded the achievements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Chouhan revived the ‘Jayanti Tax’ barb to attack the UPA over ‘delay’ in clearance of projects in the name of environmental safeguards. lauding Shah’s organisational abilities, he said that under the leadership of Modi and new party president Amit Shah the country would rapidly develop.
Chouhan, addressing the august house, said that in short period of just two and a half months of Modi’s leadership, creative change has been witnessed in the work culture of the Government. On the one hand hundred work plan of every Ministry has been prepared and on the other Union Ministers are taking decisions quickly on development issues, he added.
Attacking the earlier United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government over its Ministers functioning with different agenda, the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister compared it to a chariot whose horses were running in multiple directions pulling against each other and claimed that it was a welcome change ever since the Modi Government came into action, as Ministers were now working with a clear focus and preparedness.
He congratulated the Prime Minister for giving top priority to farmers’ interests in World Trade Organisation (WTO) and safeguarding their interest without succumbing to any pressure and addressing the BRICS convention in national language. It is due to strong leadership at the Centre that India got the chairmanship of the BRICS bank and the attitude of neighboring countries has also changed, he added. Chouhan also mentioned the successful visits of Modi in neighboring Bhutan and Nepal saying this is also the respect of our collective cultures.