Bharatiya Janata Party national president Rajnath Singh on Sunday made it clear that the party would contest parliamentary elections on the issue of development and not on the issue of constructing Ram Mandir.
During his visit to the holy city, Rajnath said BJP was not communal like Congress and Ram Mandir in Ayodhya is not an election issue. BJP is a secular party but Congress is befooling the people by describing the party as communal which is completely wrong, he alleged.
Rajnath was in the city to address the State executive of the party, which took place ahead of the upcoming lok Sabha polls at the outskirts of the city till Sunday evening.
The party president reached Amritsar by a chartered flight on Sunday and went to Golden Temple to pay obeisance where he was accompanied by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, BJP State head Kamal Sharma, BJP vice president Rajinder Mohan Singh Chhina, former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Shanta Kumar, party’s in-charge of Punjab affairs and co-in-charge Shyam Jajju.
Meanwhile, putting an end to the speculations on BJP candidate from Amritsar seat, Singh announced that sitting MP Navjot Sindh Sidhu would contest from here. He said that Sidhu always remained star campaigner of BJP and party can never afford to isolate him. Nevertheless, Sidhu was not present during party’s State executive as he was busy with a TV show’s shooting these days.
Talking about the lok Sabha elections, Rajnath said that in the coming next two months, strong youth brigade of BJP would be made keeping in view the forthcoming lok Sabha polls and youth brigade would work on grass-root level at each block and ward.
Addressing the gathering including State executive, he said party workers and leaders should shun photo culture as some were trying hard to make their presence felt in the section of media, he advised them to adopt work culture to serve the people from core of their heart.
Criticising Congress for poor economy of the country, the saffron leader said that Congress was involved in neck deep corruption while ignoring the poor people. He claimed that BJP had never indulged in corruption as the party always watched the interest of common man.
He held Congress accountable for steep fall in the value of Indian rupee and said that it was all due to wrong and defective polices of UPA since it was struggling hard to pay debt which was availed from foreign nations. He further said, “Food Security Bill is not completely acceptable to BJP as it require certain amendments. Moreover, this Bill is not protecting interest of farmers and people living below the poverty line.” He also made it clear that BJP would not oppose the Bill but Congress should think over to review it.
Hailing the Public Distribution System introduced by the Chhattisgarh Government led by BJP, he said that it was immensely liked and remained successful which should be adopted in all the States of the nation for the larger interest of common man. Due to wrong policies of Congress, debt ridden farmers were under severe depression and committing suicide, he added.