Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Dec 20: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who attended the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting for the first time today after the declaration of electoral results in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, described the results from the two States as a big victory and said, “we are now ruling 19 States of India, whereas even Indira Gandhi in her heyday, when she was in power, had Congress Governments only in 18 States.
Modi turned emotional while sharing the difficult journey of BJP from two seats in 1984 to its present status of today. He lauded the Gujarat victory saying that sixth straight term in consecutive succession won by BJP in Gujarat is something rarely heard of in the Indian politics where even securing the second consecutive term for a ruling Party becomes an insurmountable task.
However, Prime Minister warned his colleagues and Members of Parliament against complacency ahead of a series of State elections beginning with Tripura and Meghalaya next year and followed by the Parliamentary election in 2019. He also urged the Party leaders not to be affected by the Opposition’s disinformation campaign against the BJP.
Emphasizing the importance of booth-level work, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called upon the Party leaders and Karyakartas to further strengthen the Party at the roots. He said, booth-level work is the root of a poll campaign and the mother of an election victory.
No Party in power at the Centre has, in the past, done so well in elections across the country as BJP has done in just three years of its tenure as ruling Party at the Centre, said Modi, referring to the Party’s winning streak in Assembly and other elections held in recent times.
Later, speaking to media persons outside the Parliament, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh said, Modi is an asset for BJP as well as all of us and he is someone that every citizen of India, including the Congress Party members, should be proud of.
In a cryptic response to Rahul Gandhi’s claim of Congress having won a “moral” victory, Dr Jitendra Singh said, “if they are satisfied with that, we have no problems. We only wish to God that all the electoral victories should come to BJP and all the non-electoral or such so called “moral” victories go to Congress.”
When asked to respond to Rahul Gandhi’s refrain that during three months of his campaign in Gujarat he could not see any “Vikas” (development) happening, Dr Jitendra Singh said, “125 crore Indians are witness to Vikas happening in Gujarat. Does it make any difference if just one single person is not able to see it?”.
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