New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) Nitin Gadkari, the newly installed president of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP), Tuesday said the party would remove any misconceptions among minorities by working for them honestly.
Interacting with a group of mediapersons here, Gadkari said the party will reach out to the minorities, the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and workers in the unorganised sector to increase its vote percentage by 10 percent.
Without naming the country's main minority community, he said honest work by the party will increase its credibility among the community. "The Congress has defamed the BJP among minorities. We will work honestly. This will remove misunderstandings."
He also stressed that he had been instrumental in giving an engineering college to a Muslim educational organisation in Nagpur.
Gadkari, who took over as the BJP president last month, said he wanted party workers to see politics as an instrument of socio-economic reform and not a platform to attain personal ambitions.
"To stand in welcome queues and place cut-outs is not the right kind of politics. One should work for social change and development," he said.
The 52-year-old BJP chief, who is an entrepreneur with wide interests, said he had a roadmap to create one crore jobs in the country.
Emphasising the performance audit of office-bearers, he said they would be required to visit states in their charge for 10 days in a month. He also indicated that 33 percent party posts would be filled by women.
Gadkari said he was not "weak" and had a proven record of success. He also pointed out that the BJP-ruled states of Gujarat, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh were the top three states in GDP performance in the country.