P M Narendra Modi on Thursday congratulated BJP workers across India on the party’s Foundation Day and paid tribute to Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya.
“On the Sthapana Diwas of @BJP4India, I congratulate the entire family of BJP Karyakartas working across the length and breadth of India,” PM Modi tweeted this morning;
On the Sthapana Diwas of @BJP4India, I congratulate the entire family of BJP Karyakartas working across the length and breadth of India.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 6, 2017
BJP was founded on April 6 in 1980. BJP leaders have started arriving at party headquarter in Delhi for the foundation day celebrations. The party has planned to organise a raft of events across the nation to mark the occasion.
Party President Amit Shah will be in Hyderabad and senior ministers like Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and Nitin Gadkari in Kolkata South, Bengaluru (Rural) and Nizamabad, respectively during this period and hold a number of public events.
Most of the Union ministers will be visiting states and constituencies which the party’s top brass has identified as winnable and party MPs will also visit one seat each where it had lost as part of its efforts to boost its chances there in 2019.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi had identified a long to-do list for the party in his address to its MPs.
“We will inform the masses about the central government’s achievements, the GST legislation and our win in the recent assembly polls,” party general secretary Bhupender Yadav said.
Yadav, who is in charge of party affairs in Bihar, will be visiting Madhepura, a stronghold of the Lalu Prasad-led RJD.
Union ministers J P Nadda, Smriti Irani and V K Singh will be visiting Thrissur, Amethi and Rae Bareli — the last two being parliamentary constituencies of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and its chief Sonia Gandhi.
Kerala, another state where the party believes it has prospects, will see visits by several ministers, besides West Bengal. Its general secretary Anil Jain and union minister Ram Kripal Yadav will travel to Ferozabad and Mainpuri, two Samajwadi Party bastions in Uttar Pradesh.
(With agency inputs)