Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi publicly appreciated his most trusted sergeant’s contribution in the BJP’s unparallel success and said that one of the biggest benefits of the 2014 lok Sabha polls for the party was Amit Shah.
Giving credit to Shah for the party’s outstanding performance in Uttar Pradesh, Modi said that the BJP won 73 seats from UP, which is higher than Congress’s total tally despite Congress candidates fought from 30 States.
After he was elected as BJP parliamentary party leader unanimously earlier in the day in Delhi, Modi and Shah received grand welcome on their arrival at Ahmedabad airport on Tuesday evening. The duo has come to their home State to attend a one-day Assembly session followed by BJP MlAs’ meeting on Wednesday, in which name of the new Gujarat Chief Minister will be announced.
Modi in his speech before he went to address a public meeting at his traditional constituency Maninagar said that as many as 20 States and Union Territories have become Congress-free following the poll results. On much talked about ‘Gujarat Model’, he claimed that it is a proven formula and it has now become institutional, which he would like to replicate nationally.
“In order to serve the nation, my experience in the State as Chief Minister would help me. Though, I am going out of Gujarat for bigger responsibilities, I will always remain a basic party worker from Gujarat as my primary membership in the party registered from the State,” he said, adding that people of Gujarat will always have right on him, wherever he would work.
Meanwhile, responding to cheering crowd, Amit Shah, BJP in-charge of Uttar Pradesh said that not only he alone but lakhs of party workers in Gujarat too deserve applaud for winning all the lok Sabha seats. “Real architect of BJP’s thumping victory is non other than the Gujarat Chief Minister,” he said.