A meeting of the Parliamentary Board of the BJP, scheduled here on Sunday, will decide the Chief Ministers for Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa, said BJP president Amit Shahon Saturday.
Talking to reporters on the results to five Assemblies, he thanked the people for giving a new direction to the country by giving the BJP a thumping majority.
He termed the three-fourth majority in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand as historical and said the BJP workers and his party’s well-wishers have worked hard to make it a reality amid many ups and downs.
He claimed that in Goa and Manipur too the BJP and its allies will form the government when the final results are declared. “It is a victory of decisiveness of people. It is a victory of the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership. 93 programmes of the Modi Government such as demonetisation, Ujjwala, jan dhan, swach bharat and rural electrification has changed the lives of people,” he claimed. “He is the most popular leader since independence,” Shah said.
He said the Opposition has been attacking the BJP and was targeting Modi personally. “People have given our opponents an answer. This victory rejects castesim, family-centric and appeasement politics. The theme of politics will be that of development in the future. People have accepted politics of performance,” he said.
He said double digit growth in India is possible only if Uttar Pradesh grows in the same rate. “We accept this verdict with humility. I assure that hopes of people will be fulfilled in five years,” he said and expressed happiness particularly in the performance of BJP in Amethi Rae Bareli, the pocket burrows of the Congress.
He refused to comment on BSP chief Mayawati’s allegation that BJP manipulated voting machines. “People of UP has come out of Hindu Muslim mindset,” he said.