Addressing some 200 of BJP's senior leadership team, the Prime Minister said that exploitation of Muslim women must end but at the same time it should not end up dividing the community.
At the mega conclave - attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, cabinet ministers, chief ministers of BJP-ruled states, veterans L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and top party functionaries - a buoyant BJP attributed its decisive victory in the recent assembly elections to the "politics of performance".
However, the state saw a very different temperature in other parts.
The two-day executive meeting didn't delve much into economic issues and challenges facing the country, although the PM reiterated his vision of a "new India" and asked BJP leaders to prepare for a "long jump" to achieve socio-economic development on the pillars of social justice to change the tide of history.
Amit Shah said he would like his party to win in leftist states like West Bengal, Kerala, and Tripura, too, besides stand-alone states like Odisha.
"That sounds like Hitler talking about his 1000-year Reich", said a Congress leader. The political resolution adopted on the concluding day of the two-day national executive meeting dwelled on the party's electoral successes, saying the BJP not only has the largest number of MPs but also largest number of MLAs across the states. "However, no step has been taken by the Modi government to mitigate the plight of peasants".
On Saturday, another Congress leader, Jairam Ramesh, said that in 2016-17, bank credit grew by 5 per cent, the lowest in 60 years, and that the plant load factor - a measure of capacity utilisation - stood at 60 per cent, the lowest in 15 years. Nearly three decades after Patnaik made this statement, the BJP is signing pan-India. In Odisha, though, neither at the national Executive Council nor at the massive public rally held in the capital, Bhubaneswar, was there any talk of anything less that self-adulation.
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He said the Prime Minister at an election meeting in Uttar Pradesh had said poverty was acute in Odisha and announced to make Odisha a laboratory for the implementation of pro-poor schemes of the Union Government. Modi said his was the biggest contribution in the party's expansion and growth. The BJP does not seem troubled.
"Naveen Patnaik has failed to fulfil the aspirations of the people of Odisha".
Modi, who is expected to reach Gujarat at 7 pm on Sunday, and will stay overnight in the city before embarking on a tour across southern Gujarat.
"The hope that the Prime Minister had generated has now turned into trust and confidence".
Everything looks set for the Reich.
"But the BJP's golden period is yet to arrive".
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