The way Gujarat Assembly polls of 2012 laid foundation for the BJP victory in the 2014 parliamentary polls. Similarly next year’s Assembly polls in Gujarat will determine the outcome of the lok Sabha polls in 2019, claimed BJP’s national president Amit Shah in Gandhinagar.
After receiving a hero’s welcome at Ahmedabad airport on his first visit to Gujarat after his re-election as BJP national president, Shah reacted in style at a function of BJP workers at Gujarat BJP’s headquarters in Koba terming organisational structure of Gujarat BJP as best and as a result of it Gujarat was BJP’s bastion and will remain so in future too.
He said that Gujarat is ideological laboratory of the party and it is crucial for the saffron brigade to continue will in the state for setting example for other parts of the country.
In context of BJP’s recent debacle in Panchayat polls, the BJP president said that there is no need to worry for the party workers but from the result they should take lesion and start working for the victory of the party in the forthcoming Assembly polls.
Emphasising on unity by forgetting internal differences, Shah in a bid to enthuse party cadre said that BJP Government at the Centre working with complete maturity under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and it is the responsibility of BJP workers to tell people about its pro-people policies and schemes to ensure victory in the Assembly elections.
Praising his mentor PM Modi’s efforts to change the global image of the county, Shah said that because of the BJP led NDA Government’s foreign policy and priority to national security; the world has started looking at India with great respect. It is the duty of BJP workers to convey such positive achievements of the Modi Government to every home in the country, he added.
Taking dig at the Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s remark and visit to Jawaharlal Nehru University post anti-national solgans, the BJP president said that Congress leaders in Gujarat would have to give answer to people why their leader supported anti-national elements.
Shah urged the party workers that they should ask Congress leaders in public on their party’s stand on the issue and not allowed them to move out freely in public.
“You must ask congress leaders publicly to clarify their stance on Kashmir issue, Afzal Guru and JNU agitation,” he said while addressing 5,000 odd BJP workers including State Ministers, BJP MPs, MlAs and other office-bearers.
Shah who was declared as ‘Man of the Match’ in the spectacular victory of BJP in lok Sabha elections in 2014 by Narendra Modi, said that of the six assembly polls after Modi Government sworn in at the centre, BJP had won in four states. As far as two defeats – Delhi and Bihar – are concern BJP’s percentage of vote didn’t diminish, he claimed.
Earlier, newly elected Gujarat BJP president Vijay Rupani praised Shah’s leadership quality by saying that under his captain-ship BJP emerged as the largest political outfit in the world with more than 11 crore members. Rupani condemned former UPA Government for framing Amit Shah falsely in various cases in order to destabilise then Modi Government in Gujarat.
He said that they put Amitbhai behind the bars but truth prevailed and he came out innocent.