Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national secretary Pankaja Munde said she would compile the government resolutions (GRs) issued during her tenure as a state minister into a book and recalled that many schemes launched by her were inspired by her late father Gopinath Munde.
Pankaja, who served as the minister of rural development, women and child welfare when BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis was the chief minister between 2014 and 2019, was speaking to reporters a day prior to the ninth death anniversary of her father.
Gopinath Munde, a former deputy leader of the BJP in the Lok Sabha, was appointed as the Rural Development Minister by Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he assumed office in 2014. He died in a road accident on June 3 of that year.
After inaugurating a camp for the differently abled in Beed, Pankaja said, There are many memories of Gopinath Munde. Each of his memory encouraged me and a (public welfare) scheme came out of it. A book of the GRs that were passed during my tenure will be prepared.” Talking about her speeches, she said, I speak my mind.
I used to do it when Gopinath Munde was alive, I do it even in his absence. When asked that the words in her speeches are often taken otherwise, Pankaja said, “It has become a routine affair. There are very few speakers that people come to listen to. I feel proud that people come to listen to me.” She said people usually draw a conclusion from her utterances depending on what is happening around her at the time and one should not read too much into it. But I don’t stop, she said.