Team News Riveting
New Delhi, November 7
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday “resolved” to win the Assembly elections due early next year.
“There is a specific mention that we shall ensure victory in the upcoming elections,” Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said while briefing about the businesses in the National Executive Committee that started today in New Delhi.
She elaborated on the 18-point resolution passed by the party in the meeting. “There was good positivity, energetic support, and complete unconditional support to see the party win in all these elections,” Sitharaman said. The resolution also lashed at the Opposition parties and condemned their “opportunist politics”.
“They were not to be seen on the streets during COVID, but did everything to create confusion on Twitter. At the time when Prime Minister was trying so hard to build trust within the country and image of the country, they were trying to weaken it,” said Sitharaman. Within 48 hours of announcing the lockdown, the government came up with giving people food for free for 8 full months – for 80 crore people, she added.
The resolution was moved by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath and seconded by Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai.
It lauded India’s position on climate change in the ongoing COP26 at Glasgow, vaccination programme, and other achievements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, including “corruption-free government” and “reduction in terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir.
“J&K is moving towards less trouble and more development,” she said.
Regarding the ongoing farmers’ agitation, Sitharaman said Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar has held several rounds of talks with farmers on the issue. “They (farmers) have to tell which is one point they have an objection to. To date, they have not specified one point. If the opposition wants to raise this issue without telling that one point, their story will also be incomplete,” she said. The finance minister was responding to the query that opposition parties would make the three farm laws and the agitation an election issue in the upcoming polls.
