BJP legislators visit China's Communist Party school

A 14-member delegation of BJP legislators currently on a goodwill tour of China today visited the school of the ruling Communist Party and interacted with its faculty on its organisational structure and the reform process initiated by it in the last 30 years.
The delegation led by Lok Sabha member and former Uttarakhand chief minister, Bhagat Singh Koshyari, is currently on a six-day tour of China on the invitation of Communist Party of China (CPC) to study its internal party structure, political functioning and its role in establishing a welfare society.
The interaction at the CPC school in Guangzhou focused on reform process initiated by the party that transformed China into a leading manufacturing hub of the world, Kamarsu Balasubrahmanyam, Parliamentary Office Secretary of the party told PTI here.

CPC which has about 82 million members maintains a host of schools all over the country to impart ideological, political and administrative training to its cadre round the year.
Earlier the delegation interacted with the Indian Consulate General of Guangzhou K Nagaraj Naidu.
The delegation will arrive here tomorrow and is scheduled to interact with senior officials of the CPC.

Before coming to China, the delegation met External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj who said that the purpose of the visit is to support the ongoing efforts to remove minor irritants in political, economic and geographical areas.
The delegation's brief is also to impress upon Chinese leaders about the positive steps initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government in establishing cordial relations with all neighbouring countries and particularly with China, Balasubrahmanyam said.

CPC maintains party-to-party relations with top political parties in the world including the Congress and CPI-M in India besides the BJP.
Modi paid a number of visits to China as chief minister of Gujarat to study the Chinese system of development as well as to scout for investment.
Besides Koshyari, the delegation included, MPs Tarun Vijay, Priyanka Singh Rawat, Bhola Singh, and Kamakhya Prasad Tasa.
The other members of the delegation are MLAs Viswanath Patil and Vishweshwar Anant Hegde from Karnataka, Vinod Narain Jha and Baidyanath Prasad from Bihar, Aseem Goel from Haryana, Virender Kanwar from Himachal Pradesh, and Salil Kumar Vishnoi from UP.