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Advani: Don’t be complacent
Advani: Don’t be complacent, L K Advani, Lok Sabha election battle. BJP Parliamentary Party Chairman L K Advani on Sunday asked his partymen to aim high for high achievement.
- ‘High ambitions are required for securing high achievement’
- Modi complimented for spectacular mega rallies in recent polls
New Delhi: BJP Parliamentary Party Chairman L K Advani on Sunday asked his partymen to aim high for high achievement. At the sametime, he cautioned the party not be overconfident of winning the coming Lok Sabha election, as this was one reason why it lost the Lok Sabha election battle in 2004. Advani took the extraordinary step of praising BJP Prime Minister Narendra Modi and complimented him for spectacular mega rallies during the past 5 to 6 months. Modi has completed 77 mega rallies and soon he will complete 100 such rallies, he said.
In his valedictory address to the BJP National Council on Sunday, Advani said, “High ambitions are required for securing high achievement. The partymen should go out from here with the twin resolves to secure 272-Plus in the next Lok Sabha and to make Narendra Modi the next Prime Minister in June.”
Advani said he had never seen the party brimming with such confidence in the past, although he has been part of the party conclaves since the First Jan Sangh National Council meeting in Kanpur in 1953. Advani thanked BJP President Rajnath Singh for naming Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate. “I want to thank the party president for his confidence that we will get a majority in the Lok Sabha and for announcing Modi as the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate.”
However, cautioning the BJP, Advani said, “We should not be overconfident and there should not be any shortcoming in the hard work that has to be put in. There should be no slackness in the efforts to return to power after a decade's break. One of the reasons for losing the 2004 Lok Sabha polls was over confidence.”
Realizing that the alienation of the Muslims could cost the party dearly, Advani said he wanted to address the lack of trust in the BJP among the Muslim community. “They know they have been used for votes, and no one did anything for them. Our party believes in integral humanism. We do not discriminate on the basis of religion, caste or language. Those, who talk about majority and minority, are those, who want their votes.”
