Modi sees strong anti-Cong wave

Wants party to particularly work on Muslims votes
25 per cent of Muslims voted for the BJP in Gujarat
Need for booth management to achieve goal
People eager to throw Congress out of power

BJP will go in for the General Election in 2014 with 272-Plus Mission: Rajnath Singh

Venkat Parsa

New Delhi: BJP Prime Ministerial face Narendra Modi on Sunday declared there is a strong anti-Congress mood in the country that can help the party to storm back to power. Eyeing Muslim votes, Modi said that when 25 per cent of Muslims vote for the BJP in Gujarat, then why not achieve that across the country, he asked. Modi wanted the party to particularly work on the Muslims votes. Much depends on the booth management and on translating the anti-Congress mood into votes for the BJP.

Addressing the daylong brainstorming session of the BJP Campaign Committee, BJP National Office-Bearers and BJP State Presidents and Organizing Secretaries, Modi said the party should be in a position to capitalise on this mood. Modi emphasized on the need for booth management, to achieve this goal. Modi guided the deliberations about the effective campaigning and urgency to reach out to each voter. He exuded confidence of a comprehensive win for the BJP as the people in the country are up and against the Congress misrule. He observed that people are eager to throw Congress out of power at the first available opportunity.

Modi said that the prescription to achieve a comprehensive win is planning in detail and implementing it in full. He also said that worker and organization is the mainstay of the BJP. All-out efforts should be made to take all sections of society with the party and strengthen the organization in the next 200 days. He appealed that all the committees appointed to reach out to various sections of society should function with more speed.

Mass rallies, constituency-level congregations, campaign to go to each and every doorstep are being finalized. Modi asked the party top-brass to focus on first-time voters and to persuade them to vote for the BJP. The party should work on bringing the youth and first-time voters to the booth and to vote for the BJP. That is the main challenge before the party, he said. Modi is understood to have advised the State BJP Presidents and State Organizing Secretaries to complete on a war-footing the formation of the booth-level committees.

It is the booth committees and the party workers, who can help the party win, he said.
This is the first meeting held of the BJP Campaign Committee, with all the BJP National Office-Bearers and State BJP Presidents and BJP Organizing Secretaries, with eye on the Lok Sabha polls in 2014. Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, Modi has an immediate challenge on his hands – the five State Assembly elections in October-November, where the he has to prove himself in at least four States of Delhi and Rajasthan, where the BJP has to wrest power and Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, where the BJP has to retain power.

In his address earlier in the day, BJP president Rajnath Singh said the BJP will go in for the General Election in 2014 with 272-Plus Mission. Rajnath Singh stressed that this is an achievable goal and expressed the confidence that the party will win more than 272 seats in the Lok Sabha polls.

Briefing mediapersons on the deliberations, BJP Spokesman Prakash Javadekar said Rajnath Singh alleged that the Congress-led UPA government has failed to provide national, external and economic security. Rajnath Singh said the people were suffering from price rise and the skyrocketing onion prices, making the people cry. He expressed concern over the falling rupee. The Congress-led UPA Government has failed on all fronts, he said.