Indore, February 18: The newly-appointed BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Thursday raked up the issue of Ram temple saying that the party is still determined to build a grand temple in Ayodhya.
Gadkari said this while addressing the three-day national convention here.
Tabling hard rules for the party leaders, Gadkari said that the BJP ministers will have to submit work report regarding the development projects and a grading system will be initiated in the party to judge the performance of the members.
Gadkari yesterday minced no words on the present functioning of the party. However, he said that the difficulties being faced by the organisation were not due to ordinary workers but by those senior leaders whom it has given much.
“The problems in the party are not because of small workers but those whom it has given much. They will have to think whether their political career is important or political ideology and spread of the party,” Gadkari said in his inaugural address at the National Executive here.
The BJP president also hailed Narendra Modi’s development work in Gujarat and urged the others to follow.
‘There is no dynasty in BJP’
In an obvious reference to Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, Nitin Gadkari said that his party did not believe in dynastic politics.
In his first presidential address at the BJP leadership meet here, he thundered that neither his father nor grandparents were prime ministers.
“I was a simple worker of a party and today I am its president. This can happen only in the BJP. The BJP is not like other political parties where dynasty rules,” Gadkari said.
“My father was not the prime minister of the country, neither were my maternal great grandfather nor grandmother. We are a party with a difference,” he added.
Gadkari’s remarks were clearly aimed at Rahul Gandhi, whose father Rajiv Gandhi, grandmother Indira Gandhi and great grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru were all prime ministers.
Before his speech, the national council ratified the presidentship of Gadkari. Senior leaders hailed his ascendance and garlanded him. Gadkari was named the BJP president in December. He took charge this month.
-Agencies