JOIN USEnsure party does not lose any of 9 state polls in 2023: Nadda at BJP national executive meet
As indications increased that J P Nadda is likely to continue as the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the leader urged his colleagues in his address at the party’s National Executive to intensify their efforts for the 2023 assembly elections, urging them to ensure that not a single state is lost.
“This year, 2023 is very important, we will have to fight elections in nine states, and this will be a prelude to 2024 Lok Sabha elections,” said party leader Ravi Shankar Prasad, briefing reporters on Nadda’s address.
Nadda further pointed out that while the party had set out its booth strengthening exercise by identifying 72,000 booths that needed to be strengthened, the party has now increased that to 1,33,000 booths, Prasad said. Under the exercise, the booths came under 100 Lok Sabha seats.
The party’s recent win in Gujarat was termed “extraordinary and historic” by Nadda, who also noted that in Himachal the loss was just by 36,000 votes. “We are working hard in Telangana, and we will form a government there soon,” Nadda told the leaders present.
Hours before the meeting, Nadda held a meeting with the party’s national office bearers, where the party’s Lok Sabha Pravas programme was reviewed. The party’s preparations to highlight India’s G20 presidency and the details of finance of the party were discussed as well.
Four poll-going states including Karnataka, Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya gave reports of the party’s status in their respective states. Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai and state president Nalin Kumar Kateel were present. Also present were Tripura CM Manik Saha as well as state party president Biplab Kumar Deb.
Apart from that, Nadda also spoke about some other efforts of the party in his speech, including the BJP government’s decision to celebrate the 20th birth anniversary of Dayanand Saraswati on February 13, the renaming of Rajpath to Kartavya Path by the Modi government, the making of two indigenous vaccines and administering over 220 crore doses of them, among others.
"We’re the fifth biggest economy, the second biggest manufacturers of mobile phones, the third biggest car manufacturer, and the fourth biggest in the startup world. We made 3,600 km of border roads while during the UPA, the Congress defence minister had said that India does not build border roads as it can lead to tensions along the border,” Prasad said.