PRIME Minister Narendra Modi made a strong pitch for Uniform Civil Code (UCC) during his address to lakhs of booth workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Bhopal on Tuesday. Modi also said that the BJP has decided it would not adopt the path of appeasement and vote bank politics. The Opposition is using the issue of UCC to mislead and provoke the Muslim community, he said. Modi said, “India’s Muslim brothers and sisters should understand which political parties are trying to incite them and trying to profit by destroying them. In the name of the Uniform Civil Code, they are trying to incite them.” “You tell me, in a home, how can there be one law for one member and another law for another member?” Modi said. “Will that home be able to function? Then how will the country be able to function with such a dual system? We have to remember that even in India's Constitution, there is a mention of equal rights for all,” he said. He called upon the workers to join hands with the commoners on party’s dictum of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’.

 

Modi asserted that the BJP will retain power in 2024 too, and warned the party workers to remain vigilant on various false allegations the Opposition would make a few months before elections and would try to throw spanner to their efforts. Giving pep-talks to a jumbo-size legion of one million low-rank party workers, Modi said that his party is riding high on its welfare schemes, particularly in Madhya Pradesh which is a pride factor and provided a green-field for the party to shape itself mammoth in size. The workers joined Modi on digital platforms from across the country. To douse the curiosity of his party workers on what new he has to unroll for them, he tried to reinvigorate them by urging them to make massive door-to-door campaign. This would rehabilitate our faith among those who have distanced from the party, he said. Lauding the efforts of millions of workers, Modi said that he recognises their untiring efforts that remained the key-ingredient in every recipe of shaping something new in the party. The Prime Minister said that it is your efforts that brought even thinnest voice to the fore even from the remotest village.

 

“We can catapult India among big league of developed nation if our workers make more efforts to bring even thinnest voice to the fore even from the remote areas,” the Prime Minister said and added, he has recently come back from his America trip, yet had every update on workers contribution, howsoever minuscule in magnitude. He appreciated efforts of party President J P Nadda and said that the massive workers network remain functional under stewardship of Nadda. Talking about recent Patna meet of the Opposition parties, the Prime Minister said that the Opposition is nothing but concoct new toxic potion for corruption. Modi said that you name any corrupt deal you will find either the Congress or its allies were involved in it. He said that in case of the RJD (Rashtriya Janata Dal) even courts had to deliver back to back penal sentences. Modi went on making allegations against all the Opposition parties and asked the party workers to make the commoners aware about these corrupt practices of Opposition parties. Those who once fielded candidate against each other; traded charges and allegations are now showing solidarity and working on matrices of false perception, that is the irony, he said. Booth workers also got an opportunity to put their curiosity before the Prime Minister in this programme as the PM was in mentor’s role as well here. From Damoh, Ram Patel, a booth worker asked- How we should connect with people? Appreciating his question, Modi said, We don’t sit in air condition offices and issue diktats, we brave harsh weather to be with people. Development of village must for India to become developed country.

 

Take interest to solve people's problems, not for vote but to help them flourish. Our objective is attaining saturation level coverage of welfare schemes. Responding to another question asked by Salla, Ramkrishanan, Andhra Pradesh, he said, workers should have thrust to serve for people. To attempt the goal of joining big league of developed nations, we need to work at grass root level for sustainable inclusive growth of even rural areas. Replying to Ripu Singh from Bihar, Modi answered we need to go to next level if people got benefited from one scheme. If people get their home under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, then they should be entitled for Mudra Yojana’s provisions. We must stand above political workers, we should stand by our people in the faces of all odds.