BJP Will Expose Congress On Land Acquisition Bill : Venkaiah Naidu
28 April, New Delhi
BJP Tuesday said it will expose Congress on issues relating to land acquisition bill.
Addressing the weekly parliamentary party meeting, Union minister M.Venkaiah Naidu said, there was no link between the suicide of a farmer at AAP rally and land acquisition bill.” He named Congress and other parties for doing politics on the bill issue .Some parties are trying to club it together which is absolutely without any basis, alleged Mr Naidu.
The Parliamentary affairs minister referred to the case of Gajendra Singh , the farmer from Rajasthan, who allegedly committed suicide at Jantar Mantar and said it was unfortunate incident but there was no connection between this issue and land acquisition . ” The BJP leader asked his members of parliament to expose congress and AAP on the issue.
Prime minister Narendra Modi could not attend the meetingt due to pre- occupation with the Afganisthan president visit to India. In this weekly meet, the urban development minister wanted his members to expose Congress, AAP on this issue of land acquisition.
Insiders say that BJP has taken a strategy to expose AAP leader Arvind Kejriwals theatrics on different occasions.
BJP brass directed their Delhi BJP leadership to take up the issue and counter Kejriwal’s politics on farmers suicide. Venkaiah Naidu said the farmer alleged suicide issue was a different case. They are unnecessary clubbing this two issues to get the political mileage .
Other than land bill issue, Nepals earthquake and prime minister’s role was also addressed by the leaders present at the meeting . Prime minister’s role was lauded by the leaders saying as soon as the quake information reached PMO he instantly involved himself to help our neighbour .
From getting involved personally in the framing of the rescue plan to donating a months salary for the relief effort,Modi left his imprint on Indias rapid response to the Nepal earthquake said the leaders in the meeting .
Members were informed how PM swiftly got on the phone to half a dozen chief ministers, including Bihars Nitish Kumar, UPs Akhilesh Yadav and West Bengals Mamata Banerjee, whose states were also affected by the quake, and asked them to send buses to Nepal for evacuating people.
He also called Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav and PM Sushil Koirala to assure them of his help.
Modis orders to respond quickly resulted in Indias first relief flight getting to Kathmandu within five hours of the quake. The PM actually led from the front he was also personally keeping track of developments in Nepal in social media, said a senior leader.