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Strong India theme of BJP vision

BS Bureau in New Delhi | March 05, 2004 15:24 IST

Conflict-resolution will be the centrepiece of the Bharatiya Janata Party's vision document, which will draw a roadmap for taking India to prosperity and attaining the super power status if the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government returns to power at the Centre.

The document, it is learnt, will hold out the promise of resolving conflicts of all nature--be it ethnic, communal and caste conflicts or inter-state disputes over boundaries and river water--and will also stress that the economic disparity and inequitable distribution of wealth as the underlying reason for prevailing social tension.

The message is that a wealthy and prosperous India will overcome its infirmities.

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The document, to be drafted by Union Law Minister Arun Jaitley and his associates, is expected to be released shortly.

BJP sources said the central argument of the document would revolve around making India prosperous and strong to resolve the conflicts, which the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government inherited from the successive Congress governments.

But what appears to be significant is that the document will elaborate the development agenda in the context of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh philosophy, which has been advocating the political theme of robust nationalism-- a term often equated with the Hindutva by Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani.

The draft is learnt to have amply borrowed from the Marxist reasoning to advance their case of building a strong nation to put an end to all conflicts by ushering in an era of prosperity and equitable distribution of wealth.

That the vision document 2004 assumes significance for the BJP is evident by the fact all crucial ministries and the Planning Commission have given their inputs for the draft.

According to sources, even Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's speech writer and a senior PMO official Sudheendra Kulkarni has contributed to see that the draft conforms to the Sangh Parivar's ideological underpinnings.

That the vision document will refer to the core issues of the Hindutva like Ayodhya, uniform civil code and Article 370 -- in the context of conflict-management skills of the government -- will be an illustration of balancing acts by the authors.

But there appears a fair scope of a critical review of the BJP's vision 2004 by the RSS at its three-day meeting, starting on March 12 in Jaipur.

Though the vision 2004 was expected to make a clever attempt to merge the concept of robust nationalism with the market economy, the RSS leadership had been sceptic about the Vajpayee government's model of development and liberalisation, RSS sources said.

That the differences on economic issues were persisting in the Sangh Parivar became evident by the manner in which the RSS leadership made it clear that it would interfere on broad economic issues, which did not conform to the Sangh's idea of economic nationalism, a senior RSS leader said.

Apparently, the vision document is expected to trigger an ideological debate within the Parivar on the eve of elections.

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