'2014 made BJP central pillar of Indian politics'

Calling 2014 a historic year, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that it will always be remembered as the year that established the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as the central pillar of Indian politics. “Before Atalji’s Government, India saw a long phase of unipolar politics and then Atalji made it into bipolar politics for the first time when he formed the Government. But 2014 is the year when for the first time a non-Congress party got a clear majority, and no one can deny that,” said Singh during the launch of Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari’s book titled Bhavishya Ka Bharat published by Prabhat Prakashan.

He added that even after 68 years of Independence, our country still doesn’t figure among the developed nations despite having natural and human resources. “We have the DNA for development. But just having DNA is not enough. We need RNA to activate that DNA code. And I can say that the current government has the vision, desire and capability to implement what is in our DNA just as Atalji’s Government did it for the first time,” he said.

Speaking on the book that is based on Gadkari’s discussions with Tuhin Sinha, Rajnath Singh added that it discusses an alternate model of economic development.“Throughout history, there have been experiments with various models like capitalism, socialism and communism. And everyone agrees that there are several shortcomings of all those models. But an imported economic model can’t bring about development of India. For development of our nation, we need an indigenous model based on teachings of Ram Manohar lohia, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya and Mahatma Gandhi — a model that can bridge the gap between poor and rich and between villages and cities,” he said.

Agreeing with Singh, BJP president Amit Shah said  there is a new thinking in the book that tries to provide solutions for many of the society’s problems by some out of the box thought process. Claiming that ever since the 70’s, the problems in India have only increased and solutions have become less and less prevalent, Shah said, “If a scientific research on this phenomenon is conducted, I feel that it would be found that people who actually come out after facing problems stopped coming into policy making. And the problems kept increasing for which it was hard to find solutions. This book makes an attempt to offer new solutions to various problems. And I also feel that not only that, it offer reveals a thought process needed for solving any non-specific problem as well.”

Talking about his book, Nitin Gadkari said that it’s based on the philosophy of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya that focus on how social change can be brought about by improving lives of exploited and vulnerable sections of the society.