Hyderabad: Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said it was the former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who introduced the concept of "good governance" in India as he had the vision to see that India could not become a developed nation without it.
"The decision to confer the Bharat Ratna on Vajpayee ji is long. He has dedicated his life to the service of the nation and is a leading personality. The nation will always be proud of him," Dattatreya said while addressing a meeting to commemorate 'Day of Good Governance' here on Thursday.
The Union Minister added that the style of Vajpayee to build consensus and take bold decisions exemplified in peace efforts with Pakistan and bus trip to Lahore, the decision to have an independent nuclear policy, the first Prime Minister to serve a term based on a coalition of parties, initiate economic reforms that resulted in more than eight percent growth in GDP and how he resolved the conflicts in the telecommunications sector, under which almost all Indians now have access to mobile phones. "When people in the country wanted change, opted for a model of good governance in the form of prime minister Narendra Modi, for the work they had done in Gujarat. The stay scam free before the NDA at the Centre also played a role in the decision of the Indian peoples who gave a majority alone. There are many features that the two Prime Ministers share party, such as considering themselves as Pradhan Pradhan Sevaks place Mantris, take bold decisions and put the interests the country above the family and party interests, "he said.
Modi said had shown this bold and decisive nature and many times in the past six months, most recently Wednesday ordinances related to the coal and insurance. The awkwardness and inaction of the past 10 years in these two sectors of the economy were well known. Despite the opposition did not provide legislation in these two important sectors, the results of the Assembly elections in Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir have sent hopefully a clear message that people were still with the BJP and NDA, and who were anxious to an era of good governance, he said.
