BJP sole pan-India party, will hit a hat-trick in 2024: JP Nadda
New Delhi, February 17
BJP president JP Nadda on Saturday said the party would hit a hat-trick in the coming 18th General Election and break its own record riding the “wave of credibility Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s guarantees have generated”.
Speaking to a sea of delegates sporting “Modi ki guarantee” caps at Bharat Mandapam, Nadda cited the BJP’s victory run and swelling voter base since 2014 to argue that the party was the “only pan-India outfit with presence from north to south and east to west”.
“Let me set the record on South India also straight. We have 29 MPs in the South while the Congress has only 28…in Bengal where we had 10 per cent votes and three seats before 2014, today we have 77 MLAs and 38.5 per cent votes. Time is not far when we will form the government in Bengal too,” Nadda said in his inaugural address at the BJP’s National Council meeting, which commenced on Saturday.
Hailing Modi for “converting losses into victories as seen most recently in Chhattisgarh,” Nadda said the BJP’s vote share had risen with each LS poll — from 18.8 per cent in 2009 to 31.3 per cent in 2014 and 37 per cent in 2019.
Speaking of Haryana, Assam and Tripura, Nadda said no one had imagined the BJP would form governments let alone repeat.
“We are creating a pro-incumbency wave,” he said, mentioning the last Assembly poll wins in UP, Uttarakhand and Gujarat.
Amid frequent applause and “Modi chants” for the Prime Minister who attended the entire deliberations on day one, Nadda unveiled the BJP’s LS poll slogan — “GYAN”. “Today we are working for GYAN — gareeb, yuva, annadata, naari (poor, youth, farmers and women), and we have to continue working for them,” Nadda said.
