"We can't simply move forward on a slow pace, but charge ahead with full speed", the Prime Minister said during the BJP National Executive Meeting.
On the concluding day of the two-day National Executive meet, the BJP political resolution indicated that it would focus on adding new socio-groups into its fold even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi tried to attract some in the Muslim community, especially women and the poor.
In a tactical image building exercise, Pradhan's supporters have made sure that his posters are seen at all crucial points of Bhubaneswar in view of the party's national executive meet that is being held for the first time in Odisha.
Modi said: "The PM said all should now progress by following the path of New India". "We have to speed up and what we have done so far is not enough", the Prime Minister said.
Shah also hit out at opposition parties for questioning EVMs and said that blaming EVMs is disrespecting the Election Commission.
Remembering and knowing about the lives of those who made supreme sacrifice for the country is necessary, the prime minister said after honouring the family members of the freedom fighters with shawls and citation. The five BJP MLAs were placed under suspension as they tried to disrupt the proceedings contending that the reservation was on religious basis nad therefore against the Constitution but chief minister K Chandrasekhara Rao clarified that it was based on economic consideration.
Prasad also told media persons that the BJP chief would tour, for 95 days, different parts of the country till September. People of the North Eastern states too have shown trust in the policies and schemes launched by the Central Government under the able leadership of the Prime Minister.
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Shah said when the BJP won 71 out of 80 Lok Sabha seats in UP in 2014, it was said that it was a "sudden" development but by sweeping the state in the assembly polls the party has proved that people have embraced it "decisively and whole- heartedly".
The party has been encouraged by its performance in the recently-concluded panchayat polls, where it emerged second, relegating the Congress to the third position.
"In many regions, there are Muslims who are backward".
Shah dubbed Modi the country's most popular leader since Independence and said he would be re-elected in 2019.
Modi, later in his BJP conclave winding-up speech, also tasked the party's women's wing leaders and workers to engage the victims of triple talaq in districts, but cautioned not to provoke them against their religion.
"We should take lessons from the prime minister". This is contrary to the Odia culture where a guest is treated like god, said State BJP vice-president Samir Mohanty.
This victory in Uttar Pradesh is also important because BJP MLAs by and large represent all the sections of the society, it claimed.
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