NEW DELHI: Union minister and senior BJP leader Arun Jailtey on Saturday asserted his party's 'Hindutva' roots and said those parading their newfound Hindu piety were nothing but "clones". "BJP has always been seen as a pro-Hindutva party and if someone wants to mimic us, I do not have any complaint. But there is a basic principle in politics, if an original is available why would anyone prefer a clone?" The turnaround began when the Modi-led BJP came to power in 2014 and through reforms and elimination of red-tapism, the Indian economy is now on an upward trajectory, he said. Today, we have come up by 42 positions in the World Bank's ranking of Ease of doing business," Jaitley said.

Source: Times of India December 02, 2017 08:48 UTC