Overview
- At a seminar marking 60 years of Deendayal Upadhyaya’s integral humanism, BJP president J P Nadda credited the philosophy for guiding the Modi administration’s welfare initiatives and economic reforms.
- Nadda said free grain distribution to 80 crore citizens and other flagship schemes have lifted 25 crore people above the poverty line.
- He highlighted that over 10 crore households received cooking gas connections, four crore pucca homes were built and 12 crore toilets constructed under central schemes.
- Farmers have benefited from the Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme alongside soil health cards and crop insurance programmes.
- He cited India’s rise to the world’s fourth-largest economy, a leap in domestic electronics and mobile manufacturing and defence production reaching ₹1.3 lakh crore through successes such as Operation Sindoor-Raksha.