PM says none in Mahagathbandhan ready to accept Cong leadership, coins ‘Ajeya Bharat, Atal BJP’
Dismissing the Opposition Mahagathbandhan as a group without a “charitra” (character) and laden with confused “niti” (policy) and corrupt “niyat” (intention), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday declared his party sees “no challenge from anywhere” in 2019 and claimed that none in the Opposition alliance is ready to accept Congress leadership.
“Mahagathbandhan ke charitra ka pata nahin, niti ashpasht aur niyat bhrasht”, he said.
Delivering the closing address at the two-day National Executive Meeting of the BJP here at BR Ambedkar Bhawan, Modi said while the BJP sees power as an instrument of change, the Opposition has no objective and purpose and it has “failed in the Government and also in the role of an Opposition”.
To recall the memory of late Vajpayee, Modi coined a slogan in the meet: “Ajeya Bharat, Atal BJP”.
“We do not see any challenge from anywhere”, Modi affirmed and challenged Opposition to grill the BJP on its work and ideology and not on the basis of “falsehood and misinterpretations”. He said comparison should be between BJP-Government’s “achievements” in 48 months versus 48 years of one family (Gandhi parivar).
Hitting out at the Congress policies, the PM said the Congress sat on the nationalisation of banks, mining and coal to achieve its stated goal of “garibi hatao” and later reversed this policy in the name of economic reforms. Modi asked party workers to “expose” Congress “disinformation” on the basis of facts in their hands.
Taking on the Opposition alliance in the run up to the next year’s Lok Sabha polls, Modi said the assorted parties cannot work and see eye to eye but have been forced to come together as “people have accepted us, our programme and the party, and our popularity has increased.”
Making light of the Congress and other Opposition parties joining hands to defeat the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Modi said, “Even smaller parties see Congress leadership as a burden.” He said the non-acceptance of the current Congress leadership is there within the Congress party itself.
“We are sure to win the trust of people as trust deficit against the Opposition goes in our favour,” the PM said.
Modi asked BJP workers to strengthen polling booth management and improve social connectivity with people. “Booth hamari choki hain, usi choki per hamara killa khara hai (polling booth is our main foundation on which our forte is standing),” he said.
Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad gave details of the PM’s speech after curtain came down on BJP’s highest decision-making body meet.
BJP president Amit Shah, who also addressed the meet, asked workers to connect with 22 crore families in the country and map the entire country to score big victory in the Lok Sabha elections. He said Modi has already toured 300 LS constituencies, and before 2019 poll he would be able to visit the rest of them.