Nadda: Empowerment, not 'revdi', is PM's goal

NEW DELHI: BJP chief JP Nadda on Tuesday said PM Narendra Modi has always believed in empowering people and not distributing "revdis (freebies)" and has effected a paradigm shift in politics with his style of governance.
Speaking at an event on the book 'Modi@20: Dreams Meet Delivery', Nadda cited a host of welfare programmes launched by the Modi government since 2014 and said they have benefited society. "Not distributing freebies but true empowerment has always been his goal. He has always spoken of empowerment," he said, referring to schemes like Swachhta Abhiyan the Ujjwala scheme and Ayushman Bharat. Congress used to mock Modi for videos of him picking garbage and opening bank accounts for the poor but it has helped India change its mindset about sanitation while the needy have benefited with transfer of money to their accounts directly, he said.
The PM has always worked on a mission mode and that's why survey after survey shows his popularity rising, Nadda said, adding Modi has practised politics and economy of inclusivity and development. Earlier, people thought "sab chalta hai (anything is fine)" but now it is all about the belief that things can change for the better, he said.
Ex-Union minister Prakash Javadekar said the message from Modi's continuous poll wins is, "if you provide good governance, people will keep supporting you". "While other parties are about one family, BJP is about good governance," Javadekar said.