Modi struck right balance between eco reform, social welfare: Amit Shah

Asserting that the Modi government has ended the confusion over whether to accord priority to economic reform or public welfare, promote industry or agriculture by striking a right balance, BJP chief Amit Shah today asked the party's social media volunteers to spread awareness about the good work done by it.

Calling the volunteers "cyber warriors", who are not constrained by the limits of traditional media, he said the government had ended four confusions that had dragged down previous dispensations.

The past governments, he said, were always gripped by this confusion over whether to give priority to politicians or bureaucracy, villages or cities, industry or agriculture and economic reform or social welfare.

"The Narendra Modi government has ended all these four confusions. These had dragged down the previous regimes and country's future. This is a big achievement," he told the volunteers ahead of a massive public outreach planned by BJP from May 26 to mark the government's second anniversary.

He cited the decision to link oil prices to market, a measure withdrawn by the previous governments under "pressure", to highlight the government's reform credentials and spoke about various social welfare schemes to stress on the Modi dispensation's commitment to the masses.

Shah accused the previous UPA government of engaging in "corruption" to the tune of Rs 12 lakh crore, saying no government in the world had caused so much loss to public exchequer.

"This government wants to bring in reform and its priority is to establish a welfare state too... It has struck a fine balance by giving equal weightage to agriculture and industry. It has made a new beginning," he said.

The government does not believe in "empty populist measures and schemes that remain on paper", he said, adding it wants to bring in fundamental changes and is working with a vision.

Praising volunteers for publicising the government's "achievements" and also taking on those "wrongly" targeting it, he said they had made a "big contribution" to the party's win in 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

"That victory is going to be cited as historic for changing the course of country's history," he said.

Speaking about employment, a question Shah said will be asked at the 200 press conferences the party plans to hold across the country to mark the completion of Modi government's two years in office, he said no ruling dispensation can provide jobs to all youths but it launched schemes like Start Up India, Stand Up India and Mudra loan programme to make them self-dependent.