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Over the past 10 years, the Narendra Modi government has knit a net of welfare schemes that, at their widest, provide a cushion to around 22 crore families. This “labharthi varg” has paid rich dividends for the BJP in successive elections, prompting Opposition parties to promise and implement their own basket of schemes.
Amid the hectic campaign for the seven-phased Lok Sabha elections, J P Nadda, President, Bharatiya Janata Party, spoke to The Indian Express at his official residence in New Delhi on a range of issues.
With campaigning for the 49 Phase 5 seats ending on Saturday, parties are turning their attention to the 58 seats going to polls in Phase 6, including all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi and all 10 in Haryana.
A common sight that greets you in Kolkata’s northern suburb of Barrackpore is giant banners and posters with caricatures of Arjun Singh as “Palturam (turncoat)”. Next to him is a caricature of Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari offering the sitting MP a “BJP lollipop”, as Singh’s opponent Partha Bhowmik, the state PWD minister, enjoys the view, sitting on an “MP chair”.
The Sirsa Lok Sabha constituency in Haryana is witnessing a fierce contest between two former state Congress chiefs, Kumari Selja and Ashok Tanwar.
BJP national president J P Nadda has said that the party has grown from the time it needed the RSS and is now “saksham” (capable) and runs its own affairs. The RSS, he said, is an “ideological front” and does its own work.
In his campaign speeches over the past week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that the Congress wanted to put aside 15% of the budgetary allocations for minorities. He then vowed that he would not allow such “splitting of the Budget”, or religion-based reservation in jobs and education.
For Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad, of the 26 seats that his party is contesting in the Lok Sabha elections in Bihar, two will be among the most personal of poll battles. That is because two of his daughters, Misa Bharti and Rohini Acharya, are in the fray. And both from tough seats against BJP rivals.