'Despite some anger', BJP to fare well in Gujarat: Ram Madhav

November 24, 2017 21:33

BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav today expressed confidence his party will perform better than the last assembly polls in Gujarat as people have supported demonetisation and implementation of the goods and services tax "despite some anger".

He called the two measures taken by the Union government "transformational" and said "no transformation is painless".

Madhav said the party was aware that people had to face difficulties due to the sudden demonetisation of high-value currency in November last year and the implementation of the GST in July this year.

But there was a need for such steps to "correct the basic economics" of the country, he stressed.

"We will win with better margin than the last time (in Gujarat assembly elections). Some journalists have told me that despite some anger among the people, they (the people) will support the BJP... Half of that anger is that of

journalists. Nobody in your family gets angry with you? They get angry because there is sense of belongingness," he said.

Addressing a gathering on 'Vision India-New India' organised by the National Democratic Teachers' Front at the Delhi University, Madhav said the Narendra Modi government has support at the grassroots level because people understand that the Union government was "doing good for the country".

Without naming anyone, he said "some intellectuals in Delhi" were scared of the support for the BJP, adding that a new word has been reserved for the intellectuals - 'demophobia' - "a phobia where these intellectuals are scared of people".

He also urged people to "become a stakeholder" in India's development and participate in government programmes such as the Clean India Mission.

He said Mahatma Gandhi used to say that India has got the political freedom but still needed to get economic and social freedom. -- PTI

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