The BJP has a problem with freebies... unless they themselves are giving them out.
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00:00Half a litre Nandini milk every day, 5kg rice every month, 3 cooking gas cylinders 3 times a year.
00:07This is what the BJP was promising to the people of Karnataka for free, after
00:24The Bharatiya Janata Party was usually against freebies
00:27and Karnataka was the only southern state where the party had a considerable presence
00:38In the Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh elections in 2022,
00:42the party had announced free benefits such as free scooties and cycles for girls,
00:47Rs 25,000 for pregnant women, LPG cylinders for women in below-poverty-line families, among other things.
00:58BJP President J.P. Nadda had justified this by saying that there was a difference between empowerment and allurement.
01:06But when BJP leaders were not offering free benefits themselves,
01:09they were calling out other parties for guaranteeing freebies during election campaigns.
01:14For example, they often targeted Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party,
01:19which was popular for offering freebies such as free bus rides for women and free units of electricity.
01:27Some people in Delhi are masters of that culture.
01:32You cannot run a country on the basis of freebies.
01:35Somebody has to pay for it.
01:58Congress Party's Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had tweeted that references to the revdi culture were a way of maligning the poor and middle class.
02:05The BJP, on the other hand, felt that parties should empower people instead of making them dependent.
02:28But while campaigning for the 2023 Karnataka elections,
02:31the BJP themselves promised cooking gas cylinders, monthly ration kits and Nandini milk to every BPL household.
02:37To senior citizens, the party promised free annual health check-ups.
02:41Party President Nadda once again defended these promises as taking care of need, not the greed.
02:57They have never given anything. They have only talked about it. But when we say, we mean it.
03:02This freebie culture is actually a way of, I would say, quick popularity.