Replicate Gujarat strategy in other states for similar electoral results: PM Modi to party MPs
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the Gujarat Assembly elections for the seventh consecutive time and put up its best-ever performance with 156 of the 182 seats.
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Patil said the prime minister has credited the win to each and every worker of the party. (File) Days after BJP’s record-breaking electoral victory in Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday credited the party’s state unit president C R Paatil and other office-bearers, while urging the party MPs to replicate the model in other states to ensure similar results in the upcoming elections. Modi was addressing the BJP parliamentary party meeting on Wednesday.
“If one person is to be credited for the Gujarat victory, it is (C R) Paatil,” Modi, was quoted as saying by sources who were present in the meeting. “If every state unit functions like the Gujarat unit did, then the party’s performance will always be good,” the PM is learnt to have said. Drawing a parallel with the Left rule in West Bengal (which lasted for more than three decades), the Prime Minister said what makes the BJP different is its “strength of the organisation”.
Sources said the Prime Minister entered the venue to a loud applause and sloganeering. Modi also appreciated BJP national president J P Nadda.
Modi, who himself led the party’s campaign in Gujarat, also spoke of India’s G-20 presidency. He urged the MPs to come out with innovative ideas to involve people in organising events across the country in the run up to the summit next year. With numerous foreign delegates expected to attend these meetings to be held in several Indian cities, the PM said they should be accorded a warm welcome and given an opportunity to witness Indian traditions and culture.
Union Minister Ashwani Vaishnaw made a PowerPoint presentation on the state of the economy. The presentation – India: A bright spot – drove home the point that inflation is under control and that the Indian economy is a bright spot on the otherwise dark [world] horizon with the cost of living having touched new highs in a number of western countries.
Vaishnaw compared the Indian economy to that of the US, China, Japan, Germany, the UK, and France – how most of them are struggling with “low growth or medium growth and high inflation”. Citing newspapers and experts, Vaishnaw said India has created partnerships for investment with the private sector. “Investment strategy has a direct multiplier effect… investment has grown from 27% to 31% of the GDP,” the presentation said. It also showed data highlighting that the inflation was higher during the Congress-led governments, it is learnt.
According to the presentation, the unemployment rates are lower under the BJP governments and said 15-lakh formal jobs are being added every month. It also said the Indian economy is comfortably within the 6-8% GDP growth band.
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