Deccan Chronicle

BJP’S OFFICE IS WORLD’S BIGGEST: SHAH

Lauds Jan Sangh for fighting for nation

- DC CORRESPOND­ENT NEW DELHI, FEB. 18

The BJP’s new headquarte­rs in New Delhi is bigger than the office of any other political party in the world, its president Amit Shah said. The office was inaugurate­d by PM Narendra Modi on Sunday.

Inaugurati­ng the BJP’s new central headquarte­rs at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg, away from New Delhi’s Lutyens’ Zone, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared Sunday that democracy was the party’s “core value”, which he said enabled it to take along its allies successful­ly. He asserted that the BJP and its forerunner Jan Sangh had since Independen­ce led all agitations in national interest.

The new headquarte­rs, with an area of over 1.70 lakh sq ft, is bigger than the office of any other political party in the world, its president Amit Shah said on Sunday. It was inaugurate­d by the PM in the presence of several former BJP chiefs, and a number of Union ministers and party office-bearers. Mr Shah said the BJP would have its own office in almost every district of the country within a year and noted that the party, at its national executive meeting in 2015, had decided to have an office in 635 of the country’s 694 districts.

With Mr Modi lauding Mr Shah and his team for building the multistori­ed three-tower premises in just 18 months, the BJP president said the new headquarte­rs was fitted with the latest communicat­ion technologi­es and had a spacious office, from where the Prime Minister could even address a state executive meeting.

Mr Shah said as per his research with an area of over 1.70 lakh sq ft, the new office was bigger than that of any other party in the world.

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 ?? — PTI ?? Prime Minister Narendra Modi with BJP leaders L.K. Advani and M.M. Joshi at the inaugurati­on of the BJP headquarte­rs, in New Delhi on Sunday.
— PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi with BJP leaders L.K. Advani and M.M. Joshi at the inaugurati­on of the BJP headquarte­rs, in New Delhi on Sunday.

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