With the BJP notching up a record tally in Gujarat, top BJP leaders and Union Ministers credited the historic win to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity and party’s hard work.
Hailing his party’s massive success in his home State, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said, “Gujarat has rejected those who do politics of hollow promises, revadi (freebies) and appeasement and has given an unprecedented mandate to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP, which worked for public welfare and development.”
Shah, who represents Gandhinagar in Lok Sabha, said he salutes the people of Gujarat on this historic victory and congratulated BJP president JP Nadda, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and party State unit president CR
Patil.
Echoing similar sentiments, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh asserted that the biggest credit for this victory goes to the trust reposed by the people in the leadership of Modi, his popularity and credibility.
“The biggest credit for this victory goes to the public’s trust in the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his popularity and credibility. Congratulations to him and thanks to the public,” Singh said.
In a series of tweets, he said the BJP’s “historic victory” in the Gujarat elections is a victory of the party’s commitment to development, good governance and public welfare.
BJP president JP Nadda said party’s victory in the Gujarat Assembly polls is a testament to Modi’s politics of development. Nadda mocked the Aam Aadmi Party saying both its chief ministerial candidate and state unit head lost the elections in Gujarat.
Nadda thanked the BJP workers for their hard work in Himachal Pradesh also, where the party lost to the Congress, saying the “raj may have changed, but ‘riwaz’ also changed as there was a gap of less than 1 per cent in vote share of the top two parties”.
In his address to BJP workers at the party headquarters in the presence of Modi and other senior leaders, Nadda also complimented the party workers from Delhi too for a spirited show in MCD elections, saying the AAP government in the national capital created hurdles in the functioning of civic bodies which were ruled by the BJP.
Highlighting the magnitude of the BJP victory in Gujarat, Nadda said the party got 52.5 per cent votes and 156 seats out of 182. “No party has been able to get so much votes and so many seats till date in Gujarat.”
Nadda also took a dig at rival Congress, saying last time its vote share was 41.4 per cent, which has come down to 27.3 per cent this time in Gujarat polls. Its seats also reduced from 77 to 17, he said.
On the AAP, he said a new party entered the election fray and its leaders used to write and claim that the “Aam Aadmi Party would get so many seats”.
“Its chief ministerial candidate, state president and all other big leaders lost the election. This shows that the people of Gujarat do not believe in those who make false promises and do politics of
freebies.”
Hitting out at AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, Nadda said he used to carry the board, pronouncing himself to be “staunchly honest”. “But he fooled the people and should apologise for the same.”
Referring to the BJP’s victory in the Kurhani assembly bypoll in Bihar, Nadda said it’s a message for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar that the people of State are with Prime Minister Modi.