The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) national executive on Saturday lauded the changes made by the Modi government in the recruitment with the Agnipath scheme, and dismissed talk of a crisis in employment, countering that the government had made the highest ever budget allocation for public spending during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A resolution on “ gareeb kalyan” or welfare of the poor was passed at the BJP’s national executive, which met in Hyderabad on Saturday, with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh moving the resolution which was seconded by Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and further supported by Haryana Chief Minister M.L. Khattar.
Briefing the press on the resolution, which was likely to be amended a little before being fully released, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that the Modi government had handled the economy well, keeping the welfare of the poor at the centre of its policies amidst a global economic crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
