By Alok Mohit
Patna, July 30: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president JP Nadda on Saturday said the BJP government had successfully executed the Gram Swaraj concept of Mahatma Gandhi in an effort to empower villages and make them self-reliant.
The concept of Gram Swaraj was visualised by Mahatma Gandhi, but it was simplified and brought to the ground by the BJP regime, Nadda said after inaugurating a Gram Sansad, organised to deliberate on central and state government schemes and their implementation.
Hitting out at the Congress, he said the grand old party had always talked about collective and composite farming but it failed to identify the inner conscience of the farmers and the poor. As such the Congress could never turn Mahatma Gandhi’s dream Gram Swaraj into reality, he added.
The BJP president also listed various development work launched by the Union government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to empower villages, Nadda said,” We are the champions of development.”
Among those present at the gram sansad were Union ministers Nityanand Rai and Giriraj Singh, Bihar deputy chief minister Tarkishore Prasad, state minister Shahnawaz Hussain and Patna Sahib MP Ravi Shankar Prasad.
Earlier, Nadda held a road show after arriving in Patna to inaugurate a two-day joint national executive meeting of various cells of the BJP. Nadda undertook the roadshow after garlanding the statue of Dr BR Ambedkar, near Patna high court, till Jaya Prakash Narayan’s statue near Gandhi Maidan, which attracted a massive crowd.
Later in the evening, Nadda inaugurated the Sanyukt Morcha national executive meeting of the party at Gyan Bhavan. Leaders of the Seven morchas of BJP are participating in the meeting.
At the two-day joint national executive meeting, party leaders will conduct brainstorming over the role of the party cells in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
NADDA FACES STUDENTS PROTEST AT PATNA COLLEGE
Activists of the All India Students’ Association (AISA) held a protest at Patna College, where he had gone to attend a function. They students raised slogans against Nadda, showed him black flags, demanding central status for Patna University and rollback of the New Education Policy (NEP).
The protesting students accused the Narendra Modi-led Union government of ignoring the institution’s interests.
Later, Nadda assured the students that he would also look into their demands.
