BJP chief JP Nadda said that the party’s peak is yet to come, setting a target to expand it further at booth and voters’ list level.
Addressing the party’s national executive meeting, Nadda cited several government measures like action against the 1984 Sikh riot accused, bringing langars outside GST.
The BJP president also said that very few parallels in Indian politics to the rapid pace at which BJP has grown in West Bengal.
“BJP president JP Nadda today spoke about various initiatives of the government including abrogation of Article 370 in J&K. He also said that the party’s vote share in recent polls has increased,” said Union Minister and BJP leader Dharmendra Pradhan.
“When COVID came no one in the world knew how to handle it. Modi Ji constituted a task force for vaccines, and today we can see the result. Within nine months, 1 billion doses were inoculated. WHO also approved made in India vaccine ‘Covaxin’,” Pradhan added.
The meeting, which is called to deliberate upon the upcoming Assembly elections in five states, including Uttar Pradesh, is currently underway.
The BJP’s national executive meeting, which is normally held once in three months according to the party’s constitution, is being held for the first time since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic last year.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the party’s national office-bearers, its national executive members from the national capital and Union ministers are physically present in the meeting.
The chief ministers of BJP-ruled states and national executive members from these states besides senior party leaders like LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi are virtually attending the meeting.
The BJP president and party’s former national presidents felicitated PM Modi at the meet and hailed his leadership in battling COVID-19.