BJP National Council Meet: Nadda Hails Modi's Leadership, Says '25 Cr People Escaped Poverty in Last Decade' | Updates

Bharatiya Janata Party’s two-day National Council meeting, which aims at outlining a robust political campaign for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha Elections, began on Saturday in New Delhi’s Bharat Mandapam in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Addressing the media at the BJP National Council meet, party National General Secretary Vinod Tawde said that PM Modi talked about their party’s Mission 370 for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.

“In today’s meeting, while guiding all the party workers, PM Modi said that BJP will get 370 and NDA 400 (seats), where 370 is not just a number but a tribute from us to Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee. Our campaign will be centred around development, the welfare of the poor and putting the nation at a place of pride in the world, we need to take these things to the people,” Tawde said.

The meeting will be attended by nearly 11,500 BJP delegates drawn from across the country.

The National Council will be inaugurated by PM Modi along with BJP National Chief JP Nadda, who will address the delegates today. Prime Minister Modi also visited the exhibition at Bharat Mandapam.

PM Modi will on Sunday deliver the valedictory address, a speech that is likely to draw the broader contours of the party’s campaign and exhort its members to go all out to achieve his target for the party to win 370 seats in the elections.

BJP National Council Meet: Here Are Top Updates of The Day

• The BJP National Council Meet will be attended by nearly 11,500 BJP delegates drawn from across the country.
• From its elected panchayat heads to district presidents and Union ministers, the BJP’s ‘national council’ meeting is going to be the ruling party’s biggest organisational get-together.
• The meeting was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP National President JP Nadda.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP national president JP Nadda unfurled the party flag during the two-day National Council meeting of BJP at Bharat Mandapam.
• “PM Modi, who is completely busy in the administration of the country, makes the party his priority and he has always stood for the BJP,” said JP Nadda while addressing the council meeting.
• “Some people ridiculed us that we would build the temple there but would not tell us the date. Ram temple was constructed and on January 22, PM Modi consecrated Ram Lalla,” he added.
• “BJP has become the largest political party in the world. Before 2014, we had governments in only 5 states but after that, there are NDA governments in 17 states and pure BJP governments in 12 states,” Nadda added.
• “In the last ten years, the Modi Government have pulled around 25 crore people out of poverty, and have given these people new wings to fly,” the BJP chief added.
• “Today, we state with pride that the hard work and efforts of our Party’s leaders have turned our Adhiveshan into ‘Maha Adhiveshan,” Nadda said.
• The Council meeting was preceded by a meeting of the party’s national office-bearers.
• Senior party leader Ravi Shankar Prasad has said two resolutions are likely to be passed by the council.
• BJP National General Secretary Vinod Tawde said that PM Modi talked about their party’s Mission 370 for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
• Union Minister Amit Shah welcomed BJP President JP Nadda as he arrived to attend the BJP National Council meeting at Bharat Mandapam.
• “It will be an important and informative session for young public representatives. This time we will win all 26 Lok Sabha seats with a lead of more than 5 lakh votes in Gujarat,” BJP MLA Rivaba Jadeja said.
• “This is going to be a big convention for all the obvious reasons as it is happening before the Lok Sabha elections. PM Modi will guide us and will give us the direction,” former Himachal Pradesh CM Jairam Thakur said.

In the national council meetings held in the last 10 years, including the two organised in the national capital weeks before the 2014 and the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the attendance had generally remained around 3,000.

The recent white paper on the economy tabled in Parliament by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, the perceived disarray in the opposition INDIA bloc, the successful G20 Summit in 2023, and the country’s global standing are among the issues that are likely to figure in the speeches of key BJP leaders at the meeting and in the resolutions.