Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hailed BJP’s big time win in Tripura local body polls and said the victories in these elections were only possible due to organisational strength of the party. In his address to the unique training programme ‘Sansad Karyashala’ for the party MPs, Mr Modi said: “…Once organisational strength is ensured, electoral victories can come easily at panchayat levels even in states such as Tripura”.
Briefing reporters of the interactions between Mr Modi and party’s lawmakers from both the Houses of Parliament, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said, “Prime Minister mentioned that such a training programme was organised at Surajkund in 2014 and that had helped him immensely”.
In a tweet on Friday, Prime Minister has said: “Tripura’s faith in BJP remains unwavering”. “I would urge BJP Karyakartas (workers) from other states to interact with Karyakartas from Tripura. The party’s repeated successes in the state demonstrate the power of development politics and democratic temperament. It also shows that with the right effort, everything is possible,” Mr Modi further wrote.
Mr Modi told party lawmakers that the BJP is growing because of “our ideology and not because of the legacy of one family or the other”. He tried to drive home the point that the saffron party is an “organic” entity and not an “assembled” one. The BJP is organising a two-day unique training programme for its Members from both Houses of Parliament beginning Saturday. The Prime Minister said the ruling party lawmakers, including Ministers should remain active as party’s foot soldiers. “The ‘Karya-karta manobhav (spirit of a common party worker) should be kept alive always, Prime Minister said,” Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi told reporters sharing what went inside at the meeting.
Meanwhile in a tweet, party’s newly appointed working president J P Nadda said: “…..Rashtriya sewa – National service – is the only principle of the party. Under Prime Minister’s vision for New India, we will continue to strive for a country which will be free from poverty, corruption, terrorism and also that all Indians are standing with each other”. In his inaugural address, Mr Modi also underlined that irrespective of age, the party leaders and elected represented should always remain ‘a student’ so that learning process goes on.
In a unique decision, it was agreed that a group of 20 to 25 MPs will be invited to each Union Minister’s residence for ‘dinner’ every month for better interaction between the party’s lawmakers and the members of the union council of ministers. “We are distributing the MPs and we are sending them to various ministers houses…This will be a continuous and monthly exercise,” Mr Joshi said.
BJP lawmakers including Union Ministers were in surcharged mood for the two-day training programme and some of them took to music to keep themselves going. ”Working hard, working happy. Visible high energy just prior to BJP MPs workshop under dynamic leadership of Narendra Modiji to serve our nation better,” tweeted former Union Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore tagging a video of some party leaders singing a popular Kishore Kumar number ‘yeh shaam mastani madhosh kiye jaa’.
In the video, Union Minister and Asansol MP Babul Supriyo talks about the original song in Bengali — ‘aakaash keno daakey; mann chhutee chaye’.
Among others who appeared in the video are BJP MPs Ravi Kishan and Manoj Tewari. On Friday, encouraged by its ‘historic win’ in Tripura panchayat polls, the BJP had maintained that two other Left stronghold states West Bengal and Tripura would also soon come into the saffron party kitty. Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had hailed the big win in the Tripura polls.
The BJP, which did not much of organisational presence even two years ago in Tripura, recorded massive win picking up 5,916 of the over 6000 Gram Panchayat seats, 411 of 419 Panchayat Samiti seats and 114 of 116 Zila Parishad seats in the local polls in the north eastern state. (UNI)
