On the call given by the Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi, large number of BJP workers and leaders sat on a fast in different areas of the State on Thursday. In protest against Congress party’s ploy to disrupt parliament, PM Modi had given a call to the BJP leaders to observe a day’s fast. In provisional State capital here, the BJP leaders and workers sat in groups and observed fast in many areas.
The Lok Sabha MP from Tehri Parliamentary constituency, Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah led the party leaders in observing the fast at Gandhi Park on the day. Launching a blistering attack on the Congress party for playing divisive politics, she said that the party which is habituated to stay in power has unleashed an atmosphere of confusion and fear in the country. She claimed by that some people are working on a heinous plan to disturb peace by engaging in politics of violence and provocation. The BJP MP said the opposition has deployed every trick in its bag to oppose the ‘politics of performance’ pursued by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi but it has failed miserably.
She said that the last session of parliament got completely wasted due to persistent protests by the members of Congress party. Many important bills which the Government intended to introduce during the session got stalled due to disrupting tactics deployed by the Congress party, she said. The Mahanagar President of BJP Anil Goyal said that the BJP has decided to expose anti development and anti democratic face of the Congress. He said that the Congress never had faith in the democracy and it is the party which had imposed emergency in the country, gagged the media and was involved in massacre of Sikhs.
On the advice of Cambridge Analytica Company, the Congress is engaged in a conspiracy to sow seeds of hatred and violence in the Indian society. The BJP leaders charged the Congress party to engage in this heinous politics on the advice of international agencies which it has hired with an eye on the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
The Union Minister of State for textiles, Ajay Tamta observed fast along with large number of supporters at Pant Park in Almora on the day. He said that the Congress party is trying to fiddle with the mandate given by the people of the country. Tamta said that the Union government is doing every possible effort to provide the benefit of the development schemes to the common people but the Congress party is trying to stall the development of the Country.
In a statement the State BJP President Ajay Bhatt claimed that the Fast observed by Party MPs and leaders was successful in Uttarakhand. He said that the party MPs observed fastagainst the dirty politics of Congress in their constituencies.