Chief Minister Raman Singh on Sunday urged the BJP workers in the State to get out of the winning euphoria of the recently held Assembly polls now and accept the forthcoming lok Sabha polls as a challenge to ensure the party’s victory.
“The people of the country are fed up with the UPA rule at the Centre and are now looking with eagerness towards the BJP. This is the turning point for our country. We have to reach out to every booth and create an environment in favour of the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi,” he said while addressing a party’s office bearers at the State BJP headquarters here.
He said that whatever programmes had been determined by the party’s central leadership for the lok Sabha polls, they need to be implemented completely by being fully focussed on them in the State. Singh said that the workers have to ensure their participation in the preparation for the lok Sabha polls themselves. “We have the target of winning all the 11 lok Sabha seats in Chhattisgarh,” he added.
He said the workers of the party’s women’s wing had worked very hard to ensure the victory of the candidates in the Assembly polls. Singh said the local issues work in case of an Assembly polls and national issues in a lok Sabha polls. This time, the biggest issue is about the country’s leadership. “last time, the entire country stood in support of Atalji. Similarly, the party workers need to raise the pitch of the party’s slogan ‘ Ek note, ek vote’ ( One note, one vote) in the name of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi at the booth level and get down to preparing for the lok Sabha polls’, he said.
Singh said the massive statue of the late Home Minister of the country Sardar Vallabhai Patel would be made in Gujarat for which old iron agricultural implements of farmers and mud from the entire country would be collected. He said Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was a farmers’ leader and played a key role in amalgamation of the princely states in India.
“We have to reach every house and tell people why Narendra Modi should be elected as the Prime Minister of the country. The people also need to be informed that the Congress-led UPA Government is pushing the country into a financial slavery,” he said. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has failed in ending the price rise, corruption and unemployment in the country, he said.