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Focus on development, PM tells BJP motormouths
By Times of India.
Prime
Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday put the motormouths among the BJP on
notice saying that they should focus on development and governance,
asserting that nobody was allowed to deviate from the core agenda.
"We were elected on the plank of development and governance and we
should stay focused on it. No deviation or dilution is acceptable. Even I
cannot move away from this even if I wish to," said Modi.
Modi was
addressing BJP MPs against the backdrop of a string of statements from
some members, which have threatened to obscure the party's twin themes
of development and governance besides giving an opening to opponents to
embarrass and harass his government.
The PM made it clear that
he meant business right at the outset as he asked officials of the PMO,
who had accompanied him to the auditorium in Parliament House, to leave.
He also asked MPs who were scattered across the hall to bunch closer as
he took exception to the party leaders speaking out of turn.
He said that one of the party leaders announced that he would be
visiting Varanasi on December 25 without checking with him. "Please stop
being my spokespersons because I don't need one. I am just a worker and
speak for myself. Else, there is process which is laid down for the
purpose and which everybody ought to follow."
Holding forth on
the theme of development and governance, the PM said both were
complementary. "Development essentially means creation of infrastructure
like buildings, hospitals. But this by itself is of little use unless
it is backed by good governance which means provision of quality
services like good doctors and efficient support staff in a hospital,"
Modi said.
Modi also emphasized that people were increasingly taking development
as an entitlement and therefore the government must go beyond the
creation of infrastructure to ensure quality of services in order to
measure up to expectations of the electorate.
The party
managers felt that the renewal of focus on governance was necessary to
rein in the Hindutva hardliners who are seeing the return of BJP to
power at Centre as an opportunity to assert themselves.They regret that
the volubility of such elements gave the opponents an excuse to disrupt
Parliament and thwart the government's bid to pass crucial legislation
like hike in FDI cap for insurance sector.
Modi announced that
government plans to hold a number of programmes on December 25 to mark
the birthday of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee as "Good
Governance Day". He said, "Atalji's birthday is a day of pride for us."
The occasion also saw PM driving home his "commitment" to Swacchh
Bharat. "The programme is not a statement but a commitment. It is the
people who have taken the lead and if we fail to do it, we will be
rendered irrelevant."
Read this story in Hindi: मोदी की चेतावनी, लक्ष्मण रेखा न लांघें बीजेपी सांसद
