After Modi’s Uri message, BJP gets set for real agenda

Vibha Sharma

Tribune News Service

Kozhikode, September 24

After PM Narendra Modi’s strong message to Pakistan, the BJP can now get going on the real agenda of its National Council meeting — improving its image with a “garib kalyan” agenda and taking on the ruling CPM in the state.

BJP sources say after Modi’s response there is no scope for any further “bayan-baazi” on the issue. For the past two days, the BJP leadership here had been battling queries over the line and length, the tone and tenor of the meeting.

The BJP will kick off centenary celebrations of its ideologue Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay’s birthday on Sunday. He was elected the Jana Sangh president in Kozhikode in 1967.

The resolution that the party will pass on the occasion will focus on his contributions and thoughts.

The party will also renew focus on Kerala, where it won one seat in the Assembly elections but did well in terms of vote share.

Modi, while speaking at the Calicut beach, mentioned how a party, about which no one thought much about 50 years back here in Kozhikode, was today ruling the country.

The success of the rally and the sizable gathering in the Left bastion is being seen as a sign of the BJP’s growing foot print in the state.

Issuing a stern message to the ruling CPM-led LDF in the state, Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah made it clear in unequivocal terms that party workers will give a befitting reply to mounting attacks against the RSS-BJP cadres here in the state.