Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said the world had started realising that India was no longer a weak nation and that it belonged to the club of powerful countries in the world.
Speaking at an event organised by a newspaper here on Saturday he said, “At the international level, India’s importance has grown. The world realises that India, at this point of time, has emerged as the fastest growing economy of the world. India today is no longer a weak country, but in the club of the powerful nations of the world.”
Replying to a question, Singh said, “At places, there are more praises and less criticism now. Whatever we had envisaged to achieve, we have achieved it.” On another question pertaining to the performance of the BJP-led government at the Centre over the last three years, he said he would not like to evaluate his own performance, but added that overall, the clout and credibility of the country had increased.
Meanwhile the upcoming municipal elections in UP will be no less than any litmus test for the eight month-old Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government in the state. The BJP is also not leaving any stone unturned to ensure win in the municipal elections and that’s why for the very first time a sitting chief minister will be campaigning for local body elections in the state along with other BJP leaders to highlight his government’s achievements.
The BJP has also decided to send voters slips along with photographs of the party’s candidates and a letter mentioning the achievements of the Centre as well as state government with major points of the BJP manifesto on 12th November 2017. The main objective behind this exercise of the BJP is to ensure that people should be informed about their candidates and about the party as well.
The stat BJP general secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak said here that “This time the BJP is going to do a new experiment in the local body elections. Under this initiative, the voting slip will be delivered to the voter’s doorstep. In this slip, the photo of the candidate for the corporator seat will be attached with the picture of the mayoral candidate. Apart from this, it will also highlight the major promises made in the election manifesto along with the major achievements of the Central and State Government.’
It is worth mentioning that during this election, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will campaign in all the 16 municipal corporations of the state. The CM’s election campaign will be launched on November 14 from Ayodhya.
The Bhartiya Janta Party will also be launching its manifesto for the local body elections for the very first time on Sunday, November 12, and this will be launched in the presence of state BJP president Mahendra Nath Pandey, CM Yogi Adityanath and UP in-charge Om Mathur at the state office of the party here in lucknow.