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BJP set to make cow, Temple & Art. 370 part of national agenda campaign

BJP set to make cow,  Temple & Art. 370 part of national agenda campaign

New Delhi, Aug 14 (UNI) A grand Ram temple at Ayodhya will happen "sooner than later" and it is completely erroneous to label the three contentious issues of Uniform Civil Code, removal of Article 370 and ban on cow slaughter as part of any Hindutva agenda, says BJP.
In the run-up to the ensuing poll season, the BJP's line would be-- these issues have been a part of the 'national agenda' since the time of Dr B R Ambedkar.
"All these three issues and the fourth one of Ram Janmabhoomi Temple have been labelled as the BJP agenda, but the fact remains that these three things are part of the guiding principles of the Constitution....It was from Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar's time and it was under his guidance that the Constitution was framed...These are the national agenda," a senior party leader told UNI on the condition of anonymity.
"And in that context, Ayodhya (Ram Temple) comes as the fourth thing because an overwhelming majority of the country - not just Hindus - want Ram Temple. These three issues are part of the national agenda because they are there right from the birth of our Constitution," he said.
As the party would be launching fortnight long Social Justice outreach from August 15, the saffron party camp says, "We are patient enough to wait for the court verdict or any kind of political development on Ram Temple we will wait for that".
However, the source asserted, "I am sure it (Ram Temple) will happen sooner than later".
Answering questions, the leader said the BJP is taking ensuing polls in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh seriously but is not disturbed at all by recent opinion poll as reported in a section of electronic medium.
Such opinion poll which shows BJP losing ground has lost credibility, the source said, adding that more so in the context of opposition parties giving opportunities to BJP to play up nationalistic issues. "The NRC campaign and repeated talk about Rafale will go in our favour," the source said.
Answering wide range of questions, the BJP leader maintained, "For the first time elections (2019) will be fought very fiercely...after so many years, more fiercely than it was fought even in 2014".
This is largely because, he said, "Very Unfortunately the debate around Prime Minister Narendra Modi is less on his performance and more on trivial issues - which the opposition wants to blow up".
In this context, he charged the opposition parties with "creating an atmosphere talking about so called intolerance and award wapsi" in the first year (2014-15).
"These theatrics happened but while those who indulged in 'award Wapsi' and such things are silent about other issues....They are not talking about all the real issues. In fact, they could not muster the courage of saying these things when the atmosphere was genuinely intolerant," the leader Mr remarked in reference to Emergency and even when the Late Rajiv Gandhi allegedly "justified" anti-Sikh riot.
In contrast to what the opposition parties have been saying, the BJP leader claimed : "Today the Modi government is very tolerant and it is tolerating every kind of criticism; whether it (the criticism) is making sense or not".
But he said such 'tolerance' displayed by the BJP leadership and the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in the right direction.
"And it is rightly so, the government has to be tolerant. But unfortunately, the discourse the opposition is trying to build is less about the performance of this government and more about all other issues which probably the common people are not concerned about," he said.
To a question, he said most of the grim pictures about the country are coming from the "imagination" of the opposition parties.
"They are the issues of imagination of opposition parties....some of it are like make-believe issues and therefore I say, this is significant departure from the past".
The senior party leader, not quite known for being pro-Modi in the past said, "For the first time here is a Prime Minister (Modi) and his team - about whose intentions, people have no doubt".
"There are criticism and arguments about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's policies, which are welcome. To say that a government policy will be acceptable to all is very difficult. There should be criticism of policies and that is very much acceptable in democracy".
He pointed out that even Prime Minister Modi has also from time to time sought people's feedback and therefore, several feedback mechanism too has been evolved by the government - for instance MyGov website.
In this context, he further said even for Mann-Ki-Baat radio programme over All India Radio in which Prime Minister actually takes people's suggestions and feedback to tell him on what he should be speaking to the nation.
"So, while the government is in a mood to listen to, the government is keen on taking feedback. The government is welcoming suggestions coming from all across the political spectrum, here unfortunately, the atmosphere is trying to create an atmosphere and they are failing in....because people have firm faith and total confidence in the objectives and intentions of the Prime Minister and his government," the source added.
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