BJP will win 2019 Lok Sabha polls, rule for next 50 years, roars Amit Shah at national executive meet

Sep 9 (AZINS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah on Sunday said the party was confident of winning the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and no one will be able to remove it for the next 50 years.

Shah made the remarks at the BJP's national executive meeting as the party projected the Lok Sabha polls as a battle between a "daydreaming" opposition and its alliance whose leader Narendra Modi has an "approval rating" of over 70% and is set to build a "new India" by 2022.

"Party President Amit Shah also said that we will win 2019 polls and after 2019 polls victory, nobody will be able to remove us for next 50 years. We are not saying this out of pride but on basis of our work," Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said after BJP's national executive meeting.

The political resolution passed by the national executive of the BJP said while the prime minister is building an India of "no poverty, casteism, corruption and communalism", the sole agenda of the "frustrated" opposition was "roko Modi" (stop Modi), Union minister Prakash Javadekar told reporters.

"The BJP will return to power in 2019 with more seats and votes. The opposition is daydreaming. It neither has a leader nor policy nor strategy. It only has a negative agenda of stopping Modi and people do not like negative politics," he said about the resolution.

Javadekar said the resolution praised the leadership of Modi and party president Amit Shah. Modi's charismatic leadership coupled with his vision and passion, combined with Shah's hardwork in building the organisation to extend the BJP's rule to 19 states, he said.

Under the "jodi" (duo) of Modi and Shah, the party has close to 350 MPs and 1500 MLAs, he said.

The executive, which comprises key party leaders from across the country, in the resolution asserted the government had progressed a lot in building a new India by 2022, which was a "resolve" of Modi, and expressed the confidence that it will be realised.