BJP chief sees bigger electoral gains in 2019
Amit Shah says Modi’s administration has taken India forward on all fronts
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah said yesterday that his party will win the next general election in the country in 2019 by a much bigger margin than the majority achieved in the 2014 elections.
Addressing the media here during a ‘Meet-the-Press’ programme of the Chandigarh Press Club, he said that the people of the country were overwhelmingly behind the BJP government at the centre led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“We will win [the] 2019 general election with much bigger majority. It will be much bigger than last time [2014],” Shah said, noting that the BJP, in three years of being in power in the centre, had provided a corruption-free and development-oriented government.
“The BJP has freed the The Congress party yesterday expressed “deep concern” over the situation in Jammu and Kashmir as it held the maiden meeting meeting of its policy planning group on the state.
Party leaders “freely and frankly” expressed their views on the situation in the Kashmir Valley at the meeting held at former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s residence here.
“The leaders expressed deep concern over the situation in the valley,” Congress leader Ambika Soni said. country from [the shackles] of casteism [jaativaad], dynastic politics [pariwarvaad] and appeasement,” said the BJP chief, who arrived here on Saturday to a rousing reception by party leaders and supporters.
Asked about the ongoing turmoil in Jammu and Kashmir, he said that the situation would soon be brought under control.