ACHIEVEMENTS & LOOKING AHEAD
Bharatiya Janata Party
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Party Document Vol-9
Bharatiya Janata Party 1980-2005 No part of this publication can be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the author and the publisher.
Published by Bharatiya Janata Party 11 Ashok Road, New Delhi-110 001 (INDIA)
ISBN 81-89480-25-1 Achievements & Looking Ahead
Edition First, 2006
Price Rs. 500.00 (Rs. Five Hundred only)
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Printed at Dedicated to the memory of Acharya Raghuveer
PRESIDENTIAL OBSERVATION
The Bharatiya Janata Party was founded in April 1980. The year 2005 is the Party’s Silver Jubilee Year. One of the major projects to be undertaken during this year is publication of official documents of the Party. As a major political Party of the country, the BJP is accountable to the people, to students and scholars, and to history for providing an official account of evolution of the Party. The foot prints of evolution of the Party may be seen in these documents, which would also reflect the country’s developing political, economic and social scenario. A Committee has been set up to implement this Party Documents Project. Shri Vishnukant Shastri, a senior leader of the party and former Governor of Uttar Pradesh heads this Committee* and Shri Dina Nath Mishra, journalist and ex-M.P., is the Working Chairman who has been coordinating the multifarious activities relating to documentation and publication. While introducing these volumes I fondly remember Shri Rajendra Sharma who served as our parliamentary party secretary for several decades. It was he who had first conceived of documenting the Jana Sangh’s history. He used to keep records methodically and meticulously. Jana Sangh Documents were produced in ten volumes. Though the Silver Jubilee volumes will focus mainly on the BJP days, an attempt would simultaneously be made to update the Jana Sangh documents, and also include the post-emergency Janata Party phase so as to maintain the continuum.
28 March, 2005 (L.K. Advani) President BJP * Unfortunately Shastriji has passed away on 17 April, 2005
Contents
1. The NDA Regime and National Security— A Performance Appraisal 1 —L.K. Advani
2. Pokharan-II and Security Ramifications External and Internal 85 —K.C. Pant
3. Making India A Major Tourist Destination 117 —Jagmohan
4. Health for All 139 —Sushma Swaraj
5. Vision for Double Digit Growth 145 —Yashwant Sinha
6. Balanced Development 159 —Vijay Kapur
7. Sports In India-2016 – A Vision —Prof. Vijay Kumar Malhotra 177
8. The IT Saga —Balbir K. Punj 207 An ‘Ambitious Charter of Action’ on ICT 212 A Roadmap for IT and Communications 217 IT Action Plan 221 The Job Goldmine 228 The Infrastructure and Legal Framework 235 Implementing IT Task Force Report 243 IT as a mass movement, IT to the villages 247 The Great Telecom Push 254 Beyond NTP 99—Convergence, Broadband 267 Pathways of Empowerment 270 Many Spin-offs from ICT 272
9. BJP’s Foreign Policy—An Overview 281 —S.K. Arora The Jana Sangh Period 284 Jana Sangh Evolution of Nehru’s Policies 288 Tashkent Declaration 292 The 1980’s 295 Iran-Iraq Conflict and Palestinian Problem 297 BJP Emerges as a Strong Force 299 The Decade of 1990’s 303 Islamic Conference 305 Manifestoes of 1996 and 1998 310 The NDA Regime 313