Cong is ‘anti-Ram, anti-Sanatan’: Nadda
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president JP Nadda on Wednesday accused the Congress of being “anti-Ram” and “anti-Sanatan”, saying the party had joined hands with anti-national powers.
Attacking the party while addressing the conference of ‘Panna Pramukh’ of his home district Bilaspur, Nadda said, “When Sonia Gandhi was the chairperson of UPA, she had raised questions of existence of Ram and given an affidavit in the court terming him as fiction (imaginary) and Congress leader Kapil Sibal made all out efforts to delay, divert and stall the matter,”
Accusing the Congress of adopting policy of appeasement towards the minority communities, Nadda called upon the party cadres to go from door-to-door to expose the party’s real face and claimed that it would be wiped out after the Lok Sabha polls.
He credited the PM Narendra Modi-led central government on setting India on a path to development, saying, “While on one hand pandemic hit the whole world, war in Ukraine continued and the economy of world powers like the US, Europe, China, Russia faltered, but in these five years, India’s economy jumped from No. 11 to No. 5. With the blessings of the public, Narendra Modi will become the Prime Minister for the third time and India will become the third largest economy in the world.”
Nadda said all parties but the BJP compromised with their ideology, adding, “PM Modi made Jammu and Kashmir truly an integral part of India by abrogating Article 370 on 5 August 2019. The slogan for which our leader late Shyama Prasad Mukherjee sacrificed his life, today with the blessings of the people, ‘Ek Vidhan, Ek Nishan, ek Pradhan’ has been implemented.”
Invoking the Ram temple, he said, “For us, Ram Temple was not an issue of politics but an issue of our faith. Consecration of Ram Lala idol in the grand Ram temple finally took place on January 22.” The party’s national vice-president Saudan Singh, Union minister and Hamirpur candidate Anurag Thakur, BJP’s state unit president Rajeev Bindal and former chief minister Jai Ram Thakur and other senior party leaders were present at the event.