Jaitley said it is not NDA or UPA and not India which has to make sure how Pakistan conducts itself and a lot in India and Pakistan relationship depends on the internal environment in Pakistan.
“If Pakistan is less radicalised and it doesn't allow these kind of elements to really dominate the relationship between India and Pakistan, I'm sure the relationship will progress,” he said.
On the recent Navy accident, he attacked Defence Minister A K Antony for stopping procurements and turning the situation in the forces to a crisis level and promised to reverse it, if BJP came to power.
“That attitude (of stopping procurements) has to change,” he said, adding that one must start trusting people and putting systems in place when the government has confidence that it is doing things in a cleaner manner and not doing anything in a manner that is shady.
“If there is no collateral agenda that the government has, you cannot allow one of the most sensitive areas of India - security, particularly considering the environment that we live in to continue to suffer because there is no procurement taking place,” he said.
Jaitley also hoped that a situation like the former Army Chief V K Singh taking the government to court will not arise again.
“If the government is fair, is open, has the stature and the vision to resolve these issues in closed doors, I don't think such a situation will ever arise again.”
Admitting that conventionally the party's support amongst a particular minority community was a little less, he said the BJP will be second to none in making sure that it instills confidence in every section of society.
He said that it is in this context that BJP Chief Rajnath Singh made a “modest and a confidence instilling gesture” to Muslims at a recent gathering where he sought to apologise.
On Goods and Services Tax (GST), he said it was lack of confidence in the central government by states that was responsible for it not getting through and hoped this confidence will be rebuilt in the coming times if BJP comes to power.
