New Delhi,
\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi today termed the electoral results from North-East an endorsement of \u201cpositive and development oriented agenda of the NDA\u201d and \u201cstrength\u201d of the organisation.<\/p>\n
The results have turned the BJP into a truly pan-India party, pointed BJP chief Amit Shah at a press conference. A beaming Shah also termed the victories in Left-citadel Tripura and Nagaland an endorsement of Prime Minister Modi\u2019s leadership by the people of the Northeast.<\/p>\n
However Shah, who along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made the BJP into election-winning machinery, said the party\u2019s \u201cgolden time\u201d will come when they oust Opposition parties to form governments in Kerala, West Bengal and Odisha.<\/p>\n
Addressing party workers later in the day, Modi said Congress was never as diminished as it is now; there are leaders whose designation rises while their stature shrinks.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s results come as a boost for the saffron party pulled down by recent losses in Lok Sabha and Assembly byelections in Punjab, Rajasthan, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh.<\/p>\n
Though the number of Lok Sabha seats they hold are not big (Tripura has just two Lok Sabha seats), but the results have given the BJP a reason to cheer, of making gains at new places.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s electoral results are important for the saffron party in more than one ways.<\/p>\n
The first direct contest between the Left and the BJP has helped the saffron party discard its distinctively \u201cHindu\u201d hues. Alongside they also raised the hopes of making electoral gains from hitherto uncharted territories, especially the only Left stronghold in the country (Kerala), in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.<\/p>\n
Facing flak over job loss and farmers\u2019 unrest, ground-reports from parts of Hindi heartland are not so encouraging for the BJP. However with these results the party, which has managed to excel the art of \u201ccustomised politics\u201d with the help of a well-crafted poll campaign and charisma of national leadership, has managed to send positive perceptions in places beyond North-East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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