Bhubaneswar, Apr 16: The BJP may be basking in the warm afterglow of its victories in the five States that went to the polls earlier in the year, but party president Amit Shah exhorted national executive members to not be “complacent” and work instead for a golden age for the party “with the BJP occupying all levels of government from panchayats to the Parliament.”
Mr. Shah’s appeal came during his inaugural address to the party’s national executive meeting in Bhubhaneswar, the capital of Odisha, a State that seems to be next on the party’s acquisition list. Briefing the media on Mr. Shah’s speech, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Mr. Shah told national executive members to devote 15 days a month to getting in touch with booth-level workers.
Cross-country tour
Mr. Prasad also said Mr. Shah would also embark on a whirlwind tour of 95 days, till September, to every State of the country and interact with party workers himself.
“Mr. Shah said that when the BJP won in 2014, analysts said the party had peaked. After the results of the 2017 [Assembly] elections, again, it was claimed that the party has peaked,” Mr. Prasad said.
“However, he believes that the golden age of the party, or its peak, will be reached only after a BJP chief minister will be installed in every State and the party occupy positions of power from the panchayat to Parliament level,” Mr. Prasad quoted the party president as saying. Mr. Shah also said Mr. Modi was the most popular leader in the country since Independence.
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