Gadkari calls Ambedkar real icon
Deepak K Upreti, Feb 17, Indore:
The BJP on Wednesday asked its leaders to adopt 'a large-hearted
approach,' sink differences and rise above 'career politics' while
seeking to entice the dalit constituency by describing Bhimrao
Ambedkar as the real icon of India.
The National Executive meet of the party which started here in "a
village setting" analysed an array of issues bedeviling the party to
help the party emerge from the poll reverses in the Lok Sabha and the
recent state assembly elections.
In his presidential address, Nitin Gadkari said senior leaders who owe
their current statures to the party should mull over their
"disconnect" with the masses. He said small party workers at the
grassroots cannot be questioned on this account. Gadkari quoted a
72-year-old BJP worker as saying that though he had invested his
entire life in the BJP he got "nothing in return."
Gadkari said leaders should know whether "political career is more
important or party's ideology and future."
Gadkari, who is to steer his party clear in next three years from the
current muddle, is hammering on the dalit constituency to increase the
BJP's vote bank by at least 10 per cent. His stated "Antodaya" (uplift
of the poorest) agenda is part of his current theme of linking the
party with the lowest rung, particularly in the village. The setting
of the tent township, though essentially symbolic, is part of his "new
political programme."
Gadkari likened Ambedkar to the US black leader Martin Luther King,
saying in a democracy all decisions should be linked to justice. The
BJP was determined to wage its war against untouchability. Seeking to
challenge Rahul Gandhi's bid to attract dalits, Gadkari on Tuesday had
lunch in the house of local dalit BJP corporator Preeti Karosiya.
Party spokesman Ravishankar Prasad told journalists that the country
should come first, party second and "myself" last in the priority list
of the BJP leaders.
Gadkari also touched on the bias in the ticket distribution and
maintained that the most popular candidate should be allotted the
party ticket.
Prasad sought to make it clear that the BJP would continue its
alliance with the Shiv Sena despite "credible differences" on many
issues. On international issues, Gadkari accused the UPA Government of
weakening Indian hold over Jammu and Kashmir under the US pressure.
China and Pakistan are having a close strategic and diplomatic
alliance against India with fake currency racket in Nepal completing
the triangle.
The party will begin its two-day national Council on Thursday and come
out with political, economic resolutions along with one on internal
security.
DH News Service
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