BJP president Amit Shah today sought blessings of his spiritual guru Rajyashsurishwarji Maharaj at a function in suburban Santacruz here.
Shah participated in a ceremony, organised at Kunthunath Jain temple, to mark the 100th birth anniversary of Shrimad Vijay Vikramsurishwarji Maharaj, the guru of Rajyashsurishwarji.
"Guru Rajyashsurishwarji Maharaj has been Amit (Shah)'s guru and he sought his blessings today and prayed for him to live longer," said Mumbai unit BJP spokesperson Yogesh Verma.
A number of Jain organisations such as Guru Vikram Janma Shatabdi Samiti, Jain Swayamsevak Mandal and Jain Alpasankhyak Seva Sansthan also took part in the programme organised in the suburb.
BJP's city unit president Ashish Shelar, MLAs Raj Purohit and Mangalprabhat Lodha, Sanjay Shah, member of Jain minority development committee and others were present on the occasion.
Sanjay Shah, vice president of Jain Alpasankhyank Seva Sansthan, said, "At this remarkable occasion, our association has pledged to bear all the household expenses, including food and medical expenses of 100 Jain families for 365 days".
"We have moved forward with small steps to serve humanity and hope that it would be a stepping stone for like-minded associations," he added.
Verma said the initiative taken by Jain Alpasankhyank Seva Sansthan is noble and BJP supports this initiative.
"If everybody follows the sermons of Lord Mahavirji, then all the world will be so blissful and there would not be any mark of terrorism," he added.
While the Constitution has put in a place a system for
running the government, it was the BJP dispensation that outlined the responsibilities of politicians and bureaucracy, Shah said, claiming the "policy paralysis" during the UPA rule was caused by confusion which led to corruption.
The Modi government, he claimed, had put the country on the path to development and no charge of corruption has been levelled against it in the last two years it has been in office. There will not be any allegation of corruption against the government even after five years, he said.
"It is working to ensure that this great country is among the frontline nations globally and not to win the next elections," he told the volunteers, adding the Modi government has touched all sections of society with its various schemes and works.
He cited a slew of measures targeting farmers, like crop insurance and soil health card schemes, and for the rural poor such as free LPG connection and insurance scheme, to buttress his point.
"The traditional media has its limits when it comes to spreading the good news. I appeal you to do so," he said.
Shah said Modi's foreign trips were fewer than those undertaken by his predecessors, an apparent reference to Manmohan Singh, but there is so much buzz around them that it appears that they are more in numbers.
The government is also working to fully modernise the armed forces.
After Lal Bahadur Shastri, he said, Modi was the first prime minister who had the "moral authority" to ask people to give up (LPG subsidy) and over one crore people did so.
Modi comes from a poor family and understands its pain, he said.
Union ministers V K Singh and Piyush Goyal spoke at length about the government's achievements. A monograph on the Modi government's achievements, put together by party vice president Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, was also released by Shah.
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Every moment of their life and every bit of their body is
dedicated to 'Bharat Mata', Shah said talking about the BJP leadership.
Attacking the UPA government, he said it committed scams everywhere-- from space to under the earth--, apparently referring to the 2G and coal scams.
Under the Modi government, India's foreign and defence policies have been strengthened and the whole world is looking at it with hope, he said.
Shah claimed the government also saved over Rs 14000 crore by directly transferring subsidies to the bank accounts of the poor, curbing corruption and black-marketing.
Over 1 crore families have already received subsidised LPG connections and over six crore are expected to get it by 2019, he said, adding there was record production of urea, coal and power.
