New Delhi, Dec 23: The BJP has set its sights on an “overwhelming” win in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking key organisational leaders to work towards boosting the party’s vote share by 10 per cent, sources said. Addressing the BJP’s national office-bearers and state presidents on the concluding day of the two-day brainstorming meet on Saturday, Home Minister Amit Shah said that the BJP’s performance should leave the opposition “stunned”, the sources said.
With the opposition INDIA bloc planning to put up a one-on-one fight against the BJP, Modi called for raising the BJP’s vote share by 10 per cent from its show in the 2019 polls when the ruling party had fetched over 37 per cent of votes while the National Democratic Alliance led by it had bagged around 45 per cent votes.Since coming to power at the Centre in 2014, the BJP has continuously striven to raise its vote share to 50 per cent in state assembly polls and succeeded in this feat in many elections. Shah, like Modi a day before, underlined the primacy of organisation in elections and said it should score such an “overwhelming” win that the opposition thinks many times before challenging it, sources said.
The prime minister emphasised the need to reach out to women, youth, farmers and the poor – whom he has often described as the four biggest “castes”. He asked party leaders to connect a maximum number of these people with the ongoing ‘Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra’, which aims at saturation of his government’s flagship welfare schemes. The sources said the party’s top brass did not set any specific seat target but emphasised on ensuring a win which should be bigger than its 2019 performance when the BJP had bagged 303 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats.
They accused the opposition of resorting to lies and spreading fake narratives but expressed confidence that people would reward Modi with a third straight term at the Centre.
Chhattisgarh CM meets Modi
Newly elected Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence on Saturday and apprised him of the steps being taken by his government to fulfil the party’s poll promises, official sources said.
Sai also paid a courtesy visit to Home Minister Amit Shah and received his “guidance”. Deputy Chief Ministers Arun Sao and Vijay Sharma accompanied Sai in his meetings with Modi and Shah here.
During his meeting with the prime minister, Sai apprised Modi of the steps being taken by the Chhattisgarh government to fulfil the promises made by him during the assembly elections. They also discussed the formation of the state cabinet, the sources said. Sharing pictures of the meeting, Sai said in a post on X that he had a detailed discussion with the prime minister regarding various public welfare schemes related to development, progress and public interest of Chhattisgarh and received his guidance.
“Under the able guidance of the prime minister, the double-engine government of the BJP will definitely establish new records of service, good governance, public welfare and development in the state,” the chief minister added in his post. (PTI)
