Eight days after GST rates were revised, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday urged BJP workers to ensure that its benefits reach everyone and called GST “a strong pillar of BJP’s good governance”. He also underlined that the BJP-NDA Governments have given a “new model of good governance.”
The BJP is in Government not for satta (power) but seva (service), and its offices keep alive this sentiment, PM Modi said after inaugurating the Delhi BJP office and stressed self-reliance and urged everyone to embrace swadeshi through campaigns in every village and street. Making a strong pitch for promoting indigenous goods, the PM asked party workers to ensure that there is a board on every shop with ‘Garv se kaho ye swadeshi hai’ written on it. The less our dependence on foreign products, the better it will be for the country, he said.
Dismissing the Opposition’s criticism of revised GST rates as lies of “bayan bahadur”, the PM said that a family will now save nearly `20,000 on its annual household expenditure of `1 lakh compared to the UPA period. Earlier in the day, BJP leaders, including Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and State President Virendra Sachdeva, performed a prayer at the five-storeyed building.
The construction of the office began in June 2023 with a bhoomi pujan ceremony performed by BJP National President JP Nadda. Speaking to reporters, the CM said, “The Party office plays a crucial role in the functioning of a political organisation. The new office building of the Delhi BJP will boost the confidence of lakhs of party workers. Party workers can lay the foundation of their future from this building.” The inauguration ceremony was attended by several BJP leaders, including JP Nadda, Union ministers and thousands of party workers. The new office is located.