In the back drop of the BJP’s successive poll victories with Amit Shah at its head, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday praised and congratulated Shah on completing three years as the BJP president and bringing in a positive work culture into the organisation.
Addressing a Parliamentary Party meeting here Modi refereed to the expansion of the BJP under Shah, making it the largest party in the world with total membership of 10 crore.
Shah assumed party presidentlship from Rajnath Singh who was appointed Union Home Minister in 2014, completed latter’s remaining tenure of two years before being re-elected as party chief again in 2016. He will remain at the helms of the party until January, 2019. Shah along with Smiriti Irani were this week elected to Rajya Sabha from Gujarat. The third seat was narrowly lost to the Congress with Ahmed Patel, a close aide to the Congress President winning it in a cliffhanger.Modi applauded Shah for deftly steering the BJP , a ruling party , saying it is easier when to do when in the Opposition.
The Prime Minister is understood to have asked BJP MPs to take a leaf out of the book of Shah who has brought a culture of hard work prevailing during Rs the Bhartiya Jan SanghRs days back in the party.
He took exception to the MPs taking their work in the Parliament rather lightly and not marking their presence and mark in the proceedings of the two houses. Modi sought them to work hard in the run up to the 2019 when lok Sabha polls are due.
Modi asked BJP MPs to work for the success of “Tiranga Yatra” from August 9 to August 15 and “Sankalp Yatra” from August 15 to August 30. In the same vein he maintained that all should dedicate themselves to ‘Sakkalp to Siddi’ slogan.
The Prime Minister stressed the need to revive the spirit of Freedom movement to achieve target of taking the country to newer heights by 2022 when the country attains 75 years of its freedom.
He said the slogan of ‘sankalp se siddhi’ (pledge to achieve) should be inspiring them to clear the country from its all ills in next five years.
On the 75th anniversary of the Quit India movement, Prime Minister on Wednesday asked the people to take a pledge to remove the problems like inequality, communalism, casteism and corruption and create a ‘new India’ by 2022.