The BJP’s weekly parliamentary party meeting witnessed an MP expressing dissatisfaction over the implementation of government schemes at the district level.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was chairing the meeting when Bharat Singh, BJP MP from Balia in Uttar Pradesh, reportedly got up to ask how he was going to convince his voters of the government’s pro-poor schemes when most of them have not been implemented.
The leader apparently said the literature provided to the MPs for their mass contact programme is not enough to convince people of the government’s policy initiatives when “ground realities” are different.
Singh’s intervention came at time when the BJP is asking its MPs and party functionaries to educate people about welfare measures taken for the underprivileged and famers as part of a week-long ‘Jan Kalyan Parv’ to mark the NDA government’s one year in office. Making the announcement, Union Minister Ananth Kumar said the event is scheduled for May 26 to June 1.
The initiative is aimed at highlighting the Centre’s pro-people initiatives, he told the MPs.
Week-long event“The government has decided to observe the Jan Kalyan Parv. Ministers and MPs will travel across the country to highlight the initiatives taken by the government for the welfare of the poor, the downtrodden and the farmers,” Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaian Naidu told reporters after the parliamentary party meeting.
Asked about Bharat Singh’s intervention, he said: “What he meant was that since the State government is not doing anything, it reflects on all of us.”