Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday that winning 370 seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections will be a fitting tribute to the party’s key ideologue Syama Prasad Mookerjee. He asked party members to build the party’s campaign around the works undertaken for the poor and the country’s enhanced global standing.
Mookerjee was a staunch critic of Article 370, which granted Jammu and Kashmir special rights, and after coming to power, the BJP government scrapped the article in August 2019.
The PM was addressing a meeting of BJP’s national office-bearers ahead of the start of the party’s convention, and asserted that every booth worker should now focus on polling booths and ensure at least 370 more votes for the party at each in the Lok Sabha elections, more than in 2019.
Briefing reporters on Modi’s speech, BJP General Secretary Vinod Tawde said PM Modi told at the meeting that the opposition will raise “unnecessary and emotional issues” during this election, byt the party must keep its focus on pro-poor policies that the BJP government has undertaken.
Tawde also said the saffron party will also launch a campaign to reach out to beneficiaries of various central government schemes from February 25.
Modi noted he has been the head of a government, including more than 12 years as Gujarat chief minister, for nearly 23 years and there has been no allegation of corruption.
A two-day mega meeting of nearly 11,500 BJP delegates drawn from across the country began in New Delhi on Saturday, as the party’s top brass led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi gets set to outline its campaign themes for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The meeting, which is being held at Bharat Mandapam, will also see the attendance of chief ministers, state ministers, BJP state unit presidents and its organisational leaders from across the country.