Varun Skips UP BJP MPs’ Meet With Shah, War of Words Erupts

Speaking on the concluding day of the party’s national executive meeting at Allahabad on Monday, Modi called for focusing on public service, balance, patience, coordination, positive approach, empathy and dialogue. The time has come to end corruption and lawlessness in the state.

Giving out commandment, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked BJP workers to give priority on delivery, media reports said. Since then, the party has not been able to play a decisive role in the state’s politics.

Prime Minister said during his last two years stint he has been struggling hard to keep things under check and fight the menace of nepotism and corruption.

BJP chief Amit Shah launched a sharp attack on Congress, saying committed leaders were leaving the party due to its obstructionist attitude towards development while also training his guns on the Samajwadi Party regime in UP for “goonda raj” that resulted in the Mathura violence and an alleged exodus of Hindus from Kairana.

Setting the stage for Bharatiya Janata Party’s poll campaign in the electorally crucial state, that sends 80 MPs to Parliament, Modi said that he will strive to do in five years what could not be done in the past 50 years.

“There are 1,529 villages in Uttar Pradesh which didn’t have power connectivity”.

“BJP has begun a “yagya” of development”. The intent of PM Modi’s emotional address on 13 June was to incite party members to venture into the countdown to the 2017 Assembly elections with renewed vigour.

In a two-pronged attack, Modi hit out at the ruling Samajwadi Party accusing it of practising casteism, communalism, nepotism and hooliganism while SP and BSP indulge in corruption in power alternatively. “They are concerned over how the nation is being made strong”, he said.

Political analysts say that the BJP has used a strategy in which Modi will talk about development, but there is a section of leaders who will focus only on caste and religion in the coming assembly polls.

Referring to Shah’s remarks on Uttar Pradesh, IT and telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “Governance in UP is on the decline”.

Barring passing references and greetings, never had Prime Minister Narendra Modi showered praise on UP BJP leaders the way he did at “Parivartan Rally” in Allahabad.

Backing the BJP’s political resolution, Singh said the policies and schemes implemented by Prime Minister Modi has brought about miraculous changes in backward and tribal belts of Chhattisgarh, adding that institutions like Livelihood College and Education City have come up in Dantewada and Sukma districts respectively.