Fielding a terror accused: BJP leaves the moral question to the people

The controversial candidate has fueled opposition accusations of hypocrisy and political opportunism against the BJP

Indian law does not prevent the country’s ruling party from fielding a candidate accused of terrorism in the general election, a senior member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party told Bloomberg News.

Pragya Singh Thakur, a self-styled Hindu holy woman who has been charged by Indian law enforcement with a bomb blast in a Muslim neighborhood that killed six people and injured 100 in 2008, should be allowed to run for office, the BJP’s national general secretary Ram Madhav said.

There is no technical or legal hurdle preventing her from contesting and there is a belief she has been “falsely implicated,” Madhav said in a wide-ranging interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait in New Delhi on Saturday.

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“I can understand there are opinions about her candidature, and there are opinions within the party also, I don’t deny that,” he said. “But what we are saying is: by law, technically there’s nothing that goes against her candidature.” “The moral issue should be left to the people,” he added.

Candidate Crimes

The controversial candidate has fueled opposition accusations of hypocrisy and political opportunism against the Hindu nationalist BJP, which regularly condemns Pakistan-based groups for launching terrorist attacks on India. While Indian political parties of all stripes have run candidates accused of serious crimes, including murder and kidnapping, no party has yet decided to field a person accused of terrorism. Madhav said the idea to run Thakur as a candidate in the state of Madhya Pradesh came from local party officials who thought she would mount a strong challenge against senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh…

BJP promises piped water to all by 2024, end trend of reducing funds

In its manifesto for the 2014 elections, the BJP had promised that the government would “facilitate piped water to all households”

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: The BJP in its pronouncement for the general races has declared that, whenever chose back to control, it would dispatch a ‘Jal Jivan Mission’, under which it will present a unique program, ‘Nal se Jal’, to guarantee channeled water for each family by 2024.

Information from the Union government appears, over the most recent five years of the NDA government, the most astounding number of channeled water associations gave in a solitary year was 3.6 million. So as to meet the objective, the BJP has guaranteed in its 2019 pronouncement that the Union government would need to give more than 36.5 million associations on a normal in a year. Right now, just 32.57 million (18.24 percent) of the 178.54 million family units have channeled water associations.

In its proclamation for the 2014 decisions, the BJP had guaranteed that the legislature would “encourage funneled water to all family units”. While in 2014, the Congress had made a comparable guarantee, in 2019 it has recently stated, “The assignment to the National Drinking Water Mission that has endured disregard under the BJP government will be expanded.”

diagram Since 2009, distinct governments have endeavored to give drinking water to individuals through the National Drinking Water Mission, propelled in 2009 and updated in 2012. Coming into power in 2014, the NDA government proceeded with the plan, however it made considerable changes in 2015. The adjustment joined a 60 percent decrease in the store allotment for country drinking water over its pinnacle year subsidizing in 2012-13, when Rs 10,489 crore was spent on the plan…

BJP manifesto highlights: Rs 25-trn agri push, pension for small traders

BJP manifesto for 2019 Lok Sabha elections promises Rs 25-trillion expenditure on rural economy. Small traders to be given pension benefits after 60 years of age

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released its poll manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections 2019. BJP president Amit Shah highlighted the government’s achievements while Home Minister Rajnath Singh read out the key promises in the manifesto. He also headed the committee that drafted it.

Here are the key takeaways of the BJP’s manifesto for Lok Sabha elections 2019:

• Agri loans available on credit cards up to Rs 1 lakh at zero per cent rate of interest
• Collateral-free credit up to Rs 50 lakh for entrepreneurs
• Promotion of Startups through creation of a ‘Seed Startup Fund’ of Rs 20,000 crore.
• 10 per cent material procurement for the government by MSMEs having at least 50 per cent women in their workforce
• Micro, small and medium enterprises to given Rs 1 trillion worth of credit by 2024.
• A pucca house to every family who are either living in a kuchha house or have no access to housing by 2022.
• Expand Ayushman Bharat to include all Anganwadi workers and ASHA workers
• ‘Jal Jivan Mission’ to be launched to ensure piped water supply to every household in India by 2024
• Double the number of MBBS doctors by 2024
• Expenditure of up to Rs 25 trillion on rural economy
• BJP manifesto says it is committed to ensuring 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament and state Assemblies through a constitutional amendment.
• Every Gram Panchayat to be connected through a high speed optical fibre network by 2022.
• Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana (PM KISAN) that provides Rs 6,000 a year to landholding farmers owning up to 2 hectares of land will be extended to all land-owning farmers irrespective of their landholdings.
• BJP manifesto also reiterates the party’s position for the abrogation of Article 370. Committed to scrap Article 35A

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