Directing the BJP unit in Himachal Pradesh to strengthen the organisational structure of the party, party president Amit Shah on Thursday said that the party should not only aim to get back to power in Himachal Pradesh but the aim should be to remain in Government for the next 20 years.
Addressing a meeting of party workers in Palampur on Thursday, Shah said that the BJP was not a dynasty based party but it had evolved a thorough democratic organisation. He said that BJP and Communist party were the only two democratic political outfits in the country while all other political parties had been grooming dynasty in India.
Shah said that nobody knew who would be the next president of the party but in Congress the post of president was reserved for a person from the family, who had been running the party for long. He said that the presidents from the booth level to the national organisation were elected through a democratic process in BJP and this has been the strength of the party.
listing achievements of the party before the assembly of BJP workers, Shah said that it had started its political journey with just 10 people had now become the largest political party of the world having 11 crore members.
He claimed that every step taken by Narendra Modi led government at the centre had turned into an achievement of the Government as well as the party and the electoral successes of the party in different states had been the reflection of the support of the people that Modi Government had been getting.
He said that the States with BJP Governments had been writing a new story of development and now it is the turn of Himachal Pradesh to have a BJP led Government. He said that State Government could not take the benefit of the financial aid granted by the Central Government but the scene would soon change when BJP Government will take the reins of the State.
The BJP President said that Centre Government had granted unprecedented grants to the highways in the State but the State Governments’ lethargy to make project reports of the highways had led to delay in start of the work.
Shah, who had been on a two day visit to Himachal Pradesh, also had meetings with editors of local media and took their views on the electoral prospective of the party in the coming elections.
Party insiders say that BJP president had taken a thorough feel of the political atmosphere in the State and the party leadership has started the process of finalising names for the electoral battle in the State.