Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the BJP as a political party has faced more adversities in independent India as compared to what the Congress would have faced during the British rul
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the BJP as a political party has faced more adversities in independent India as compared to what the Congress would have faced during the British rule and lamented that every effort of his party is viewed with bias.
“Even during the British rule, the Congress party would not have faced so much adversity that we have gone through in the last 50-60 years,” Mr Modi said after he laid the foundation stone of the new party headquarters here.
Underlining his party’s commitment to take everybody along with the motto of “sabka saath, sabka vikaas”, he asked party workers to present to the country and the democratic world an example of how a party “devoted to ideals and devoid of dynasty” functions, because the world knows the saffron outfit “not the way it is but based on hearsay”.
The large gathering was attended by top BJP leaders, including party chief Amit Shah, L.K. Advani, Rajnath Singh and Arun Jaitley among others.
During the recent West Bengal Assembly polls, it was difficult for the BJP candidates to even hire an office in Kolkata as anybody willing to give them space would face trouble, he said in an apparent attack on the ruling Trinamool Congress.
“No party has perhaps made more sacrifices than us (BJP) after freedom,” he said, adding that “hundreds of” its workers were killed because they were not associated with the ideology prevalent in those times.
BJP workers do not work for the crowd but for the organisation as “anybody can collect a crowd by talking about populist issues, but what is more important is to stick to ideology”, he said.
In a lighter vein, he said election candidates of no other party would have forfeited more deposits than those of BJP as they kept fighting for their ideology irrespective of the results.
Stressing on party leaders’ commitment to ideology, Mr Modi said rival parties would certainly have thought that they will be served well if the likes of L.K. Advani, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Murli Manohar Joshi joined them, but these leaders decided to live for their ideals.
