INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday exuded confidence that BJP will win the 2024 Lok Sabha polls with a bigger mandate than 2019
margin even as the party extended the term of current chief J P Nadda till June next year, beyond the Lok Sabha polls due next year
Nadda's continuation though was a foregone conclusion as the party's parliamentary board had given its consent for the extension of his term
Shah made the announcement formally at a press conference saying that Nadda has utilised the popularity and charisma of PM Narendra Modi in
winning polls and expanding the party's footprint across the country.Defence minister Rajnath Singh moved the proposal, which was passed
unanimously by the national executive committee members in presence of PM Modi, who was in attendance at the meeting through the day
Shah said, "Under the leadership of PM Modi and organisational headship of JP Nadda, BJP will win with a bigger margin in 2024 and Modi ji
will be the PM once again.""BJP is the most democratic party in the country and its organisational polls take place in a democratic manner
The elections for the national team take place after an extensive membership drive followed by polls from the booth level to the state,"
Shah asserted that BJP values the democratic processes
"Right from the days of Jan Sangh's establishment to date, BJP has conducted elections from booth to the national president as mandated by
Following immaculate methods of democracy election officials are appointed, voters' lists are made and only then the polling begins," he
He said that due to the pandemic, the party could not carry out the membership drives in time, on account of which holding of the polls to
elect the national president is not possible as per the party constitution
"Even in the past, the tenures of party chiefs had been extended in different times to tackle different circumstances
Following this tradition the national executive committee decided to extend the tenure of J P Nadda," he said.Illustrating Nadda's success
in polls he said, "During his presidency, we have scored the highest strike rate in Bihar
Even in Maharashtra, NDA was catapulted to power and we formed government in Haryana
UP, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Assam and Gujarat
In West Bengal, BJP's seats went up from 3 to 77 in five years
In Tamil Nadu and Telangana, we emerged as a power," he added.
