BJP’s poll anthem is a shot in the arm for nationalists

Saswat Panigrahi

The BJP’s poll anthem is a veritable melody of refreshing nationalism. The song promises to defeat the forces inimical to India’s interest.

The song aims at uniting India affected with divisive politics and inculcates the essence of ‘Nation First’.

The song is a straight dig at Congress which has gifted the country wave after wave of scams, messed up our economy, subverted democratic institutions, divided India on communal lines and compromised with the national security.

The song, which features Narendra Modi, directly connects the hearts of the countrymen when the BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate says:

“Woh loot rahe hain sapno ko
Mein chain se kaise so jaaun
Woh bech rahe hain Bharat ko
Khamosh mein kaise ho jaaun”

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Congress manifesto should be torn up, thrown away

Saswat Panigrahi

The Congress’s poll manifesto is out. Titled ‘Your Voice Our Pledge’, the manifesto comes with a set of fake promises.

The foremost striking feature of the manifesto is that the Congress vows to push the GDP growth rate to 8 per cent plus in the next three years if it comes to power again.

Let’s have a reality check. The GDP growth of the country has slipped to a measly 4.9 per cent, thanks to economic mismanagement under the leadership of the so-called economist Prime Minister. The nation is suffering an economic downslide. The macroeconomic parameters are steadily declining.

Now a flashback to 2004, the year when the Congress-led UPA took over the reins from the BJP-led NDA. The country’s economy was in a pretty good shape. The GDP growth stood at a whopping 8.4 per cent. But the Congress messed up the economy and pushed the country into an era of gloom and doom.

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PMO spreading canards about Gujarat, BJP seeks apology

Saswat Panigrahi

Congress’s dirty tricks department is burning the midnight oil this poll season to defame Gujarat by using spurious data. Pankaj Pachauri, adviser to the Prime Minister, tweeted some misleading data to make the point that Gujarat doesn’t figure in the list of top 10 States in the field of economic development.

Pankaj Pachauri said that among 19 States, Gujarat had the slowest growth rate at 9.52 per cent in year 2012-2013. Pachauri had put up a graphic on his Twitter handle, which has listed the growth rate of 19 States, while placing Gujarat at the bottom.

Pankaj Pachauri’s assertion is in sharp contrast to the figures of Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) which suggest that Gujarat’s GDP actually grew by 12.69 per cent in 2012-2013.

According to the report by Economic Freedom of the States of India (EFSI), 2013, Gujarat tops States in economic freedom. The report states that Gujarat has widened its lead at the top of the economic freedom table, with an index score of 0.65 on a scale from 0 to 1.0.

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