LUCKNOW: Home minister Amit Shah on Friday said that BJP’s victory in the 2022 UP assembly elections would prolong the party’s victory run.
Affirming that the Yogi government in UP managed to fulfil “more than 90%” of the promises it made to the people in 2017 assembly elections, Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday exhorted party workers to expeditiously carry out the membership drive and get the feedback from maximum number of household which will help the party brass in devising its election manifesto for 2022 assembly elections.
“We had promised to fast-track development of UP and we did it,” Shah said, stressing that the BJP government turned UP into the country's second largest economic state from 7th position it acquired before 2017. Shah cited various parameters including employment, medical facilities and infrastructure where the state improved its position under the incumbent Yogi Adityanath government in the last five years. He also hailed the UP government for taking adequate measures in controlling the Corona pandemic.
“This can only happen when you think beyond your family and a few selected castes,” Shah said.
He said that the BJP required another five year term to completely remove the maladies which infested the state during the previous SP and BSP regime.
BJP’s membership drive is said to have played a pivotal role in its overwhelming electoral success in UP during 2014, 2019 Lok Sabha and in 2017 UP elections. Shah, said that the fresh membership drive was like sounding a poll bugle for the forthcoming state elections.
He said that for the opposition parties elections were a “means to usurp power”, but BJP saw it as an opportunity to spread its ideology to every household, understanding people’s problems and bringing welfare programmes of the government to their door steps. “Ye Loktantra ka Mahotsav hai..Lok sampark ka zariya hai,” he said.
Shah remarked that though a BJP worker believed in “family planning”, the party tended to “broke the rule” to expand its base. “Hence the membership drive, which will help in expanding the party footprint,” he reasoned. Having a strength of around 2.30 crore workers, including those who showed their right wing leaning through missed calls, the party aims to make 1.5 crore new members. The drive will be carried out till December 31, 2021.
Shah pitched the revocation of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir as one of the key fulfilment of promise it has been making in its previous election manifestos. He maintained that doing away with Article 370 has made J&K an “inseparable part” of India.
