New Delhi: Even as the counting of votes for the Karnataka Assembly elections will be taken up on Tuesday, the Bharatiya Janata Party chief, Amit Shah, on Monday held a meeting here with various State party presidents and workers where he took stock of organisational and political issues as the party gears up for a series of polls, including the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
The meeting comes ahead of a convention of the national executives of all the seven 'morchas' of the party on May 17 with Prime Minister Narendra Modi scheduled to address the gathering and chart out a roadmap for them in the last year of his government's term, a BJP leader said.
During the three-phased meeting, Shah predicted a bigger win in the impending Lok Sabha elections in 2019, than 2014. With the party celebrating the fourth anniversary of Modi government at the Centre, the meeting was meant to draw a strategy for the battle for the throne in the next year.
The meeting started with Shah's addressing where he mentioned that BJP is the largest political parties, having 11 crore members, 330 MPs, and 1,800 MLAs.
He further claimed that other parties are copying BJP's strategy of the membership campaign. Shah also asserted that not only in the Lok Sabha elections, BJP is heading for a massive majority in Karnataka, so this is a good time to have this meeting. "The Congress ruined their own organisation but we never made that mistake since we are a karyakarta-driven party. Today when people say BJP vs all, we like that challenge," he added during his speech.
"We will most certainly win 2019. People said 2014 was a fluke, but we have won 11 elections and formed 14 governments since then. We want India to be a world leader. We know how to win an election, we know how to run a government and we know how to come back to power," the BJP chief said further.
"To win the election you only need seven crore votes and in the last general elections, we got 17 crore votes. Till now, the Narendra Modi-led government has done welfare work for more than 50 crore people. Modi government has never done something shameful that bow our heads down."
"So far tribal leaders and leaders of the backward class have been associated with the regional wing of the party, however this time we are going to see their presence in the central leadership also," he added.
In addition, during the second and the third phase meetings, various groups were segregated to emphasise on the regional ongoing issues. While addressing the mediapersons here after the meeting party's senior leader Sudhanshu Trivedi mentioned that in the third phase of the meeting the recent victory of the party in the Jharkhand civic poll was discussed and so the ongoing violence during the ongoing Panchayat elections in West Bengal.
The status of many national and regional level party programmes was also discussed. The party officials were asked for their suggestions.
"The importance of social media platform like the NaMo applications were discussed. The 'Raatri Pravas' of the office bearers and central ministers at various corners of the country, were also discussed and the report was being taken by the party president. The party identified 20,000 villages where our representatives worked. The 'feedback' system has also been started to take the status so the party workers were urged to give suggestions," Trivedi added.