MONEY REACHING POOREST

The Prime Minister has struck out all the middlemen and started accounts for every poor person in India. He has ensured that all the money that needs to given to the poor is transferred into their bank accounts. The insurance scheme in which you pay a premium of Rs 12 and get an insurance cover of Rs 2 lakh are a success. I think nowhere in the world has it ever been done, that a scheme covers every citizen that is below the poverty line. These are dramatic achievements in the first year of Governance. So yes all the schemes that are meant for the poor are actually getting filtered and reaching out to the poor.

—K J Alphons is a special invitee to the national executive of the BJP. He made daily headlines while with the Delhi Development Authority in the mid 1990s where he helped protect 60,000 acres of prime real estate, and in the process took on some of the country’s most influential land mafia. Even his bosses in the bureaucracy did not have enough steam to stop him from doing his job. He quit the IAS in 2006 and became an MLA from Kerala. These days he is busy working on making the BJP a relevant political party in Kerala..

(As told to Misha Singh)