BJP plans door-to-door campaign in Andhra Pradesh to highlight Central schemes
The Hindu
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will undertake an intensive door-to-door campaign to highlight the development and welfare initiatives of the party-led government at the Centre, its national general secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam has said. Gearing up the party cadres for the mass contact programme on Wednesday (June 22), Mr. Dushyant Kumar told the media that the party would seek suggestions from the people to fine-tune the implementation of the Central schemes so that the benefits reached the targeted groups in the State.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will undertake an intensive door-to-door campaign to highlight the development and welfare initiatives of the party-led government at the Centre, its national general secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam has said.
Gearing up the party cadres for the mass contact programme, Mr. Dushyant Kumar told the media that the party would seek suggestions from the people to fine-tune the implementation of the Central schemes so that the benefits reached the targeted groups in the State.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi is popular not only in India, but also across the globe,” he said while referring to the participation of Mr. Modi in the International Yoga Day celebrations at the United Nations headquarters.
He said providing two doses of coronavirus vaccines to all free of cost was a ‘big achievement’. Believing in the concept of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam‘, vaccines were provided to the needy globally, he added.
Describing the opposition parties coming together ahead of the 2024 elections as an ‘opportunistic move‘, he said the people would not believe those with a track record of corruption. He claimed that the BJP had provided a ‘corruption-free‘ government at the Centre.
“The people of Andhra Pradesh are upset with the corrupt Jagan Mohan Reddy government, which affixed its tag to Central welfare schemes. The people are waiting to show the YSRCP the doors. It is unfortunate the YSRCP has diverted the Central funds for other purposes, denying the benefits to the people,” said Mr. Dushyant Kumar.

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