BHUBANESHWAR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday armed the NDA government with "P2G2 (pro-people, good governance)" pole to attempt a long jump by 2022 for substantive transformation in the lives of the socially and educationally backward people in the country.
In an apparent attempt to steer the BJP back to the development agenda after the party is increasingly being seen drifting to hard Hindutva plank with the elevation of Yogi Adityanath as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh (UP), PM Modi spoke of the trinity of "Van Dhan, Jan Dhan and Jal Dhan" to power India to socio-economic empowerment by 2022.
Making a veiled reference to the party leaders in UP seeking to whip up discord among communities by raking up "trivial" issues, Modi in his concluding address to the two-day-long national executive meeting here remarked that victory should make one sober.
"We have seen maximum defeats in our political journey and our four generation of leaders have given their lives to nourish the party. Politics for us is not the means to capture power, but to help achieve the aims of a just and equitable society. Electoral victory should make us humble," sources quoted Modi having told the conclave.
Even while the BJP is seen encouraging debate on the issue of triple talaq, Union minister Nitin Gadkari quoted the Prime Minister having told the party jamboree that the justice to Muslim women could come through awareness and awakening, and not by friction within society.
It may be recalled that the Centre in its submission to the Supreme Court has maintained that triple talaq has no legal validity.
Further expanding his idea of "New India", Narendra Modi presented an administrative template to achieve the aims of socio-economic transformation of the country. "Van Dhan (forest-based economy, Jan Dhan (financial empowerment of the poor), and Jal Dhan (water conservation to power irrigation of agriculture) could be ethical, economical and an ecological mean of making India a nation to reckon with by 2022 on the world stage," Gadkari quoted Modi having told the conclave.
With the Modi government set for completion of three years in office next month, the Prime Minister asserted that the current achievements of the Centre and the BJP ruled states are not enough and argued that the mission mode approach is needed.
"We have to travel faster than speed (to achieve the targets by 2022). We have to make a long jump to achieve the goal of an empowered country," Modi told the BJP conclave.
Giving a glimpse of the substantial scaling up of the economy, Modi said, "When the NDA government came to power at the Centre, the revenue receipt was Rs 13 lakh crores, which has gone up to Rs 19 lakh crores within three years. I am hopeful that it will double (Rs 26 lakh crores) from the 2013 level in the next two years."
The Prime Minister appears to believe that the rollout of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) along with the decision on demonetisation, besides measures against tax evasion, would give the NDA government a robust financial anchor to approach the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Making another reference on the issue of alleged tampering of the electronic voting machines (EVMs) being stoked by the opposition parties, PM Modi said that like the campaign of "Award wapsi", it too will die down in due course.
The next national executive meeting of the BJP will be held in Visakhapatnam on July 15-16 as part of the party’s strategy to expand in southern parts of the country