Nitin Gadkari was formally elected unopposed as the ninth president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the term of next three years. The election was held six weeks after he took over the control from Rajnath Singh as the acting president.
Gadkari (53 years) is the youngest president of the 30-year old party. As elected president, Gadkari is now entitled to announce his new team. But he will appoint his team of office-bearers only after the party's national council meeting in Indore on 18 and 19 February, which will ratify his election
Gadkari at a public meeting in Chandigarh on Wednesday had said Mulayam Singh aur Lalu Prasad jo Congress aur UPA ke virodh ki baat karte hain woh bhi jaakar CBI ke saamne jhuk gaye bade dakartey the sher jaise ab kuttey ke jaise ban kar Soniaji aur Congress key ghar par talve chatney lagey Mulayam and Lalu who speak against Congress and UPA they too have bowed before CBI these leaders were roaring like lions but later bowed like dogs to lick the feet of Sonia and Congress.
Taking a dig at the CBI, the BJP president said the premier investigating agency should, in fact, be renamed as the Congress Bureau of Investigation. "The Congress has become a weak party, inefficient in fighting terrorism and making the country insecure," he added.
He expressed anguish over rampant bomb blasts and Maoist attacks in the country.
Condemning the Congress for just going by "dynasty rule", Gadkari said prime minister Manmohan Singh and finance minister Pranab Mukherjee cannot even think of ever becoming their party's chief. Referring his elevation from a poster-pasting ordinary worker to the BJP president, Gadkari said the Congress culture was only to depend on the Nehru-Gandhi clan for leadership.
From (Jawaharlal) Nehru to Indira Gandhi to Rajiv Gandhi to Sonia Gandhi now and in future Rahul Gandhi, the leadership issue is quite decided in the Congress," Gadkari said.
Where has Rs445 crore that came through future trading gone, Gadkari asked Manmohan. "The money has been pocketed by MNCs, speculators and manipulators," he said.
Quoting Planning Commission reports, he said the BPL population in the country had increased by 41 crore. He accused the Congress of backstabbing the poor.
Accusing the UPA of being indifferent to the plight of farmers, he said, taking a car on loan has become cheaper than purchasing a tractor and alleged that the government had no facility
to store one-third of the foodgrain produced by the hard-working peasants of the country.
With agency inputs
