BENGALURU: Stone-walled by the opposition in Parliament, the Land bill took the centre-stage on Thursday at the preparatory meeting of BJP's office-bearers on the eve of the party's two-day national executive, the first since the Narendra Modi government assumed office at the Centre.
Apart from the land bill, the BJP brass with Modi, party chief Amit Shah and other members of the parliamentary board also vetted and fine-tuned the political-economic and foreign policy resolutions that will be taken up at the meet. This is to ensure that the political stand taken by the party here and the government's policies are in sync.
BJP plans to make the land bill a people's issue and fight the perception "created by the opposition" that it is 'anti-farmer'. There will be a power-point presentation on it for BJP leadership to put forward its arguments to "expose the opposition's hypocritical stand" on the issue.
BJP leaders question the stand taken by Congress, TMC, JD(U), SP and others, asking why the state governments run by these parties have not worked to implement the 2013 law, brought under UPA, if it was an acceptable proposition to them.
"After the party's committee, set up by Amit Shah on the land bill, interacted with farmers' organizations in various states and the subsequent amendments incorporated in the legislation, we are convinced that the land bill in its present form is good and should go through," Union law minister Sadanand Gowda told reporters.
BJP is planning to take the land bill campaign to the ground level. The party's door-to-door campaign to take its membership drive into the second stage for verification — Jan Sampark Abhiyan — will also include explaining the advantages of the land bill to farmers and the common man.
The focus on land bill comes at a time when Congress and TMC stood firm against the legislation and vowed to oppose it. The government was forced to re-promulgate the ordinance after it failed to muster enough strength in rajya Sabha to see the legislation through.
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Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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