India neither needs the US-model of capitalism nor the Soviet-model of socialism, which have impeded the nation’s development, Union Minister for Urban Development M. Venkaiah Naidu asserted on Sunday.
China gave up socialism and changed its policies to effectively compete with the US, he said at a public meeting at municipal stadium here.
“The Modi government believes in adopting the good and giving up what’s bad in every system”, he said. “The bourgeois system has gone and we must get out of the Communist ideology”.
Bharatiya Janata Party government would not follow policies of pseudo-secularists, Mr. Naidu said and added that people of all religions were equal and have equal rights in India.
“Muslims who stayed back in India, during partition, are Indian citizens on par with others”. He accused some political parties of using Muslims as vote banks. Muslims in Gujarat have the highest per capita income, he added.
He charged some parties with creating rifts between religions for gaining political mileage and instead dubbing the BJP as communal.
Poverty has equal impact on people of any religion and one was free to embrace any religion, but the Vedic inheritance and culture of the nation must be preserved, he said.
Terrorist outfits like ISI and SIMI were misguiding youth and ruining their future, at the behest of some political parties, he said.
There was no difference between the Congress and YSR Congress, he remarked.
The Union Minister said all systems had gone haywire during the UPA government in the last decade.
The Modi government was now concentrating on rebuilding the shattered systems and put the financial scenario back on the track, he said.
Mr. Venkaiah Naidu declared that he would not contest the next elections but would devote himself to party work, to pave way for youth.
The Modi government was bestowing its special attention on Andhra Pradesh and the State became power-cut free as the Centre granted solar power projects to generate 6,500 MW in AP, BJP State president K. Haribabu said. Modi and Chandrababu Naidu governments would develop Andhra Pradesh, he added.
Health Minister Kamineni Srinivas spoke.
