Delhi Chief Minister and AAP's national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday announced the ‘Make India No. 1’ mission by focussing on health, education, agriculture, and employment. He also proposed a five-point vision for good governance and said he would travel across the country to rally support for the cause of making India the number one country in the world.
In his address, Kejriwal said to make India number one in the world, public funds will have to be utilised for ensuring free and quality education for every child, free and good medical treatment for every citizen, employment for youth, equal rights and dignity to women and fair price to farmers for their produce.
Addressing an event organised by the AAP at the Talkatora Stadium in the national Capital, Kejriwal said that India has achieved a lot since its Independence but is still lagging behind several nations that gained independence after it. The announcement comes ahead of the Assembly elections in Gujarat where the AAP is trying to make major inroads.
Kejriwal termed the campaign a “national mission” and appealed to the masses to join it to realise the long-cherished dream of India becoming the best in the world and figuring in the list of developed countries. He said those from the BJP, Congress and any other political party can also join it as it is apolitical in nature, even as he blamed the parties in power, without taking names, for the slow progress of India since Independence. “In the past 75 years, they did nothing other than filling their homes and that of their friends with wealth,” he charged.
“If we leave this country with these parties and leaders, we will go back by another 75 years. Some of them (leaders) live for their family while others for friends. Someone has to indulge in corruption while some others have to plunder the country,” he said.
Riding high on its stupendous victory in the Punjab polls, the AAP has reorganised and activated its units in most of the States seeking to expand its foothold.
The party, which has launched a membership drive across the country, is preparing to contest the Assembly elections to be held in the next two years, with a focus on the forthcoming polls in BJP-ruled Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh.
Though the AAP failed to make an impact in Goa, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand in the last round of Assembly polls, it has been projecting itself as the next principal opponent to the BJP in many States after the weakening of the Congress.
“To make India number one in the world, we will have to open schools in every nook and corner of this country to ensure no child is left without education,” he said. After getting educated, every child would make their family rich from poor and then India will be listed in the list of rich countries, he added.“The second measure that we will have to take is to provide free and best medical treatment along with free medicines and test facilities to every citizen of the country. Third, we will have to provide employment to every youth which is possible with the right intention and management.
Fourth, every woman should get respect, equal rights and security. Fifth, we will have to ensure farmers get fair prices for their produce and get respect so that children can say with pride that they also want to become farmers,” Kejriwal added.
“I appeal to 130 people of this country to join this national mission and make India number one,” he added.