‘Performance, Employment, Growth & Development’will be Election Issue for BJP in 2019 poll, says its General Secretary

General Secretary, BJP, Mr. Murli Dhar Rao on Wednesday assured India Inc. that time has come for all political parties not to operate on duals accounts, expecting industry to have one for transparency and benign taxation.

He also emphasized that his party’s election issue for 2019 parliamentary poll could be ‘performance, employment including growth and development’ clarifying that the main issue with which it will go on electioneering mode will depend on the pressing issues of the prevailing time.

Addressing a Seminar on “Achieving Industrial Goals – Through Integral Humanism” under aegis of PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry here today, Mr. Rao also announced that the BJP and the government led by it would promote entrepreneurship by all means with benign tax regime.

“Production, Productivity & Efficiency though the government of the day would promote and encourage with benevolent industrial and economic activities but in the Parliament poll of 2019, the pressing issues for electioneering could be performance, employment, growth and development”, he said.

Elaborating on the issue of dual accounts with which political parties have been operating on for years, Mr. Rao asserted that time has come when transparency in politics would have to come through a single account as the government cannot expect the industry to be cleaned and neat with one account.

The two would have to coexist for increasing spirit of entrepreneurship within indigenous industry and that to on Indian model as the imported models of entrepreneurship would not work in India, felt Mr. Rao.

Former MP & Chairman, Rajasthan State Industrial Development Corporation, Mr. Mahesh Sharma in his address sought that wealth creation by industry should be for altruistic purposes and the capital that it creates should stay with it for such objectives only.

President, PHD Chamber, Mr. Gopal Jiwarajka emphasized that the government of the day should be receptive to needs of industry so that growth is generated with employment.

Chairman, IR & HR Committee, PHD Chamber, Mr. Ravi Wig asked the BJP to depute some of its think tanks to interact with Indian industry to consider some of its justified and legitimate issues that India Inc. has been confronting with at least once in two months.

Among others who spoke on the occasion consisted of Sr. Vice President, PHD Chamber, Mr. Anil Khaitan; its former Presidents Dr. Raghupati Singhania and Mr. Alok B. Shriram and Co-Chairman of IR & HR Committee, PHD Chamber, Mr. Bharat S Mehta.