While affirming “New India” by 2022 under the BJP rule, which it claimed, will be free from poverty, caste, communalism and terrorism, the BJP resolution passed at the National Executive Meeting on Sunday did not mention Ram Temple and the controversial Rafale deal.
“This Government has vision, passion and imagination, and the works of this Government can be seen. By 2022, India will be free of terrorism, casteism, communalism, and nobody will be homeless,” Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said briefing newspersons on political resolution. The resolution was moved by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
Expressing confidence about his party coming back to power in 2019 Lok Sabha polls, BJP president Amit Shah said his party will rule the country for the next 50 years.
“Amit Shah said the party will win the 2019 elections because of its performance and then no one can dethrone the BJP for the next 50 years,” senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters here quoting the party president at the national executive meet of the party.
Prasad said the projection is based on the work and achievement of the party-ruled Government at the Centre, and not arrogance. “The politics of the county is now progressing towards performance and hope,” the Minister said quoting Shah.
He said since Narendra Modi became the Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2001, the party has never lost an election and continues to remain in power in the State because of the BJP’s performance.
Responding to a question Javadekar, said the Ram Temple was not discussed or mentioned in the resolution and same was the case with the Rafale deal.
“There was no need for it. People who are making the corruption allegation need to understand that there was no middleman in the deal. There was no Quattrocchi in it,” Javadekar said, referring to the middleman of the infamous Bofors deal.
The BJP said the Opposition’s hope to defeat the saffron party was a “daydream”. It said a lot of development work has been done in the past four years, and a “New India” will by formed by 2022.
“This Government has vision, passion and imagination, and the works of this Government can be seen. By 2022, India will be free of terrorism, casteism, communalism and nobody will be homeless,” it said.
Taking on the Opposition, the party in its resolution said it has no agenda or policy, or strategy.
“The Opposition is frustrated and it has neither leader nor policy and its sole agenda is to stop Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” Javadekar said.
He said Modi is still a very popular leader in the country and even after four years in power, Modi’s approval rating is more than 70 per cent.
The Minister said the BJP will win the 2019 parliamentary election with a majority even bigger than what it achieved in 2014. The BJP had won 282 seats out of 543 in the 2014 parliamentary election.
The Modi Government will not allow India to be a “safe destination” for infiltrators, Shah said, asserting that it has started efforts to identify the Rohingya people living illegally in the country and will make arrangements for their deportation.