Allahabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday exhorted BJP leaders and workers to embrace seven precepts that he said would strengthen the party and increase its presence all across India.
“Sense of service, balance, patience, coordination, positive attitude, sensitivity and dialogue were the seven points the prime minister asked party leaders and workers to follow,” Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told reporters here.
Jaitley said the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has had “two successful years” in office, making policy paralysis a thing of the past.
“It’s a historical period for all of us,” the minister said.
He said the BJP’s two-day National Executive convention in Allahabad, which concluded on Monday, was held when the party was doing “really well”.
Among other things, BJP discussed how it would strengthen its presence in states where it was not doing well earlier, Jaitley said.
Though the two-day deliberations appeared to have focused on a victory in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections next year, the party also spoke of plans for its expansion along the East Coast where it hardly has a presence.
While party President Amit Shah and some other top leaders raked up the Kairana issue, Modi himself focused on development and skipped the issue. Nor did he touch any other contentious issues.
In a two-pronged attack, Modi hit out at the ruling Samajwadi Party accusing it of practising casteism, communalism, nepotism and hooliganism while SP and BSP indulge in corruption in power alternatively. He attack Congress referring to corruption in purchase of helicopter, aircraft,. (Agencies)
