Asserting that the BJP Government has taken major strides towards the development of poor villagers and farmers with the Union Budget unleashing a slew of allocations for “gaon, garib aur kisan”, BJP president Amit Shah on Saturday said the Garibi Hatao movement is finally finding its feet under the Modi dispensation, which is taking “one new initiative every 15 days”.
This, even as he took up the raging controversies over nationalism and freedom of speech and slammed efforts to pass off “anti-national acts as freedom of expression”. He sought the party workers to ignite “nationwide patriotism” saying, “Desh bhakti ka alakh jagayein (arouse the spirit of patriotism in the nation)”.
Delivering the inaugural address at the two-day National Executive of the BJP at the NDMC convention centre here, Shah lashed out at Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for “supporting” those raising anti-national slogans saying “such activities cannot be tolerated at any cost”.