Focus on ideology: Gadkari

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Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari has called upon party workers to stay away from the glamour of power and work for the party organisation keeping in focus the party ideology.

He was addressing the concluding session of the state BJP executive committee at Ratlam on Thursday. The party workers should work ceaselessly keeping aside the ambition of holding posts, he said adding “ours is the biggest democratic party in the country. The “non-BJP parties” only have intolerance towards the BJP, which is full of nationalism and commitment for the cause of the nation, he added.
Mr Gadkari said, “We are against aping the West but are for modernisation. The party workers have no reason to work for the party if they do not realise why they are with the BJP. To give extra-momentum to the party organisation, it has been decided to collect Rs 1 lakh each from 10,000 people. Fifty per cent of the money collected in this manner would be given to the states to run the party offices through money generated by interest on this amount.”
He underlined the target of expanding the BJP’s vote bank by 5 per cent, saying this is necessary to return to power at the Centre. Taking a dig at the Congress, he said instead of building the capacity to generate 5 crore jobs in five years, they have only followed the politics of vote bank. This is the reason why they have failed on all fronts and people from all walks of life were suffering, he observed.
The Congress had promised to bring down prices within hundred days whereas prices have gone up 100 times under Congress rule, Mr Gadkari said and went on to appeal to the public to extend full support to the nationwide bandh called by the BJP on July 5.
Talking to mediapersons on this occasion, Mr Gadkari said that the Congress owes an explanation to the people for the 1984 gas disaster because at that time the Congress was in power both at the Centre and in Madhya Pradesh.

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Modi meets RSS chief
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Ahmedabad

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Sources said after Jaswant Singh’s re-entry, the Sangh was mulling the return of the other two as well.