Nadda works ‘Brand Modi’ in Karnataka; PFI ban tops poll narrative
By Our Special Correspondent
New Delhi, February 21: On the Karnataka poll trail, the Bharataiya Janata Party (BJP) chief JP Nadda is seen banking on ‘Brand Modi’ to turn the corner for the ruling dispensation in the state. The BJP’s poll plank appears banking on ‘Brand Modi’ and ban on PFI to build an election template of development and polarization in Karnataka.
Nadda was speaking at a meeting of intellectuals and professionals at Kuvempu Kalamandira in Chikkamagaluru district in the poll-bound Karnataka on Tuesday. Nadda spoke of the achievements of the Centre for more than 90 per cent of his speech time, while making a passing reference to the women-friendly state Budget presented last week by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai.
Nadda’s clear emphasis was to guide the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections to ‘Brand Modi’, as he brought forth a basketful of statistics on India’s manufacturing gains in automobile to electronic goods to build a narrative of the turnaround in the industrial fortune of the country under the leadership of the incumbent prime minister.
“PM Modi constituted a Cornona Task Force in April, 2020 soon after the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak. Within eight months, India was ready with two indigenous vaccines. India provided the two vaccines to 100 countries. The vaccines were given free of cost to 48 countries,” said Nadda, while giving long time line for the introduction of vaccines against Japanese Encephalitis, tetanus, and other virus and bacteria-born communicable diseases.
On the call of PM Modi, said Nadda, war between Russia-Ukraine was stopped to help the evacuation of 5022 students, including 600 from Karnataka. Nadda also stated that all Indians were evacuated from Afghanistan by commissioning special flights.
In the long list of Modi achievements for the country, Nadda also listed out India becoming the third largest manufacturer of automobiles, overtaking Japan, with only the US and China now being ahead of the country. Also, India now manufactures 90 per cent of the mobile phones against the same imported in 2014. “When you buy an Apple phone, don’t forget to look at Make in India label,” said Nadda.
To give the BJP poll plank the second leg, Nadda turned his guns to former state Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for “withdrawing 175 cases against the Popular Front of India (PFI)”. As many as 600 activists of the PFI were released, said Nadda in his attack on the previous Siddaramaiah-led Congress government in Karnataka.
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