Whipping up the issue of Hindu
migration from Kairana in Uttar Pradesh and "casteism and communalism" of the ruling SP, the two-day BJP national executive concluded today with Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching a blistering attack on the state government but skipping controversial issues.
Though the two-day deliberations appeared to have focused on a victory in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections next year, the party also spoke of plans for its expansion along the East Coast where it hardly has a presence.
While party President Amit Shah and some other top leaders raked up the Kairana issue, Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself focused on development and skipped the issue. Nor did he touch any other contentious issues.
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.
Addressing a public meeting after the executive session, he also made a veiled attack on the Congress referring to corruption in purchase of helicopter, aircraft, guns and cooking gas subsidy.
Appealing to the people for an opportunity to rule the state, he invoked the greatness of rivers Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati and said the land of Prayag will mark a new beginning by taking to development.
"For this, arrogance , casteism, poison of communalism, corruption, nepotism will have to be sacrificed in the holy fire (yagya) to start the new journey of development," Modi said to the cheers of the party cadre and admirers who repeatedly shouted 'Modi, Modi, Modi'.
Not sparing the BSP, the other major player in the state, the Prime Minister said Mayawati and SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav take turns to accuse each other's government of indulging in corruption but take no action when each one comes to power.
Earlier, in his concluding remarks at the executive, Modi advised his party workers to follow seven mantras including empathy and restraint in their conduct and said people are not content with mere slogans but concerned about how the nation is being strengthened.
