The Bharatiya Janata Party Uttarakhand election in-charge JP Nadda, who flagged-off the party’s lED- equipped campaign vehicle aka rath in the city on Monday, has made it clear that the party has finalised the poll list for the State on the basis of winnability and nothing else. The comment assumes significance in view of the allegation reigning in the political circles that the BJP had propped up dynastic politics by foisting children of some leaders in defiance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s firm no to fielding the kins of the leaders in the electoral contest.
“However, the collective discontent of the people with the corruption-tainted non-performance of the Harish Rawat government has made our task easy,” he said.
Spelling out the party’s campaign strategy, he said the Prime Minister Narendra Modi would lead the show along with the party national president Amit Shah, Union home minister Rajnath Singh and Union finance minister Arun Jaitley. “This aside, chief ministers of some states might also come to canvass for BJP candidates here,” he added.
Commenting on the Congress list, Nadda said that it smacked of a defeatist mindset. “The list of Congress candidates has further bolstered our confidence, making us sure of a straight two-third majority in Uttarakhand,” he said.
Taking a swipe at the chief minister Harish Rawat, the BJP leader said that his contesting from two seats in the plains has rubbished the claim of his identification with the mountains. “Not being confident enough of the electoral worth of its own men, the party has fielded dissident BJP men in several constituencies,” he said.
Pitching for development, he said that NDA government at the Centre embarking on an economic cleansing process while reaching out development to the poor, they would rebuild Uttarakhand developmentally aside from weeding out corruption which he called the legacy of the Congress-led government. “The Centre is ready to gift the Himalayan state- formed at our behest in 2000-with a lustrous financial package. But the question is-would Congress execute it if it comes back to power,” Nadda said.