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Hyderabad, April 6 (PMI):Hyderabad: “Bharatiya Janata Party is the only political party which always believes in propagating its ideology rather than craving for power. It is the only party which strongly believes that Indian way of life is the guiding force for the entire world and is striving for making India the global leader. That is why, the BJP is the political necessity for the country. Though many political parties were born on this soil, the BJP is the only party that reflects the true Indian spirit,” State BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar said on Wednesday, while addressing the party leaders and cadre at the BJP office in Nampally after unfurling the party flag on the occasion of the BJP foundation day”.
Stating that the BJP had grown into a powerful political force in Telangana, though it had never enjoyed power in the Telugu States in the past, Sanjay said it was only because of the immense sacrifices made by the party workers. “With the same spirit, we shall soon end the anarchic rule of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and make the saffron flag flutter on the Golconda Fort after the next elections,” he said and called upon the party cadre to launch an extensive door-to-door campaign to expose the corrupt, dynastic and dictatorial rule of the TRS.
Describing it as a festive day for the BJP workers across the country, Sanjay said in the last 41 years of the party’s foundation, thousands of party workers had made immense sacrifices to uphold the party’s ideals and objectives. “We have dedicated workers who are ready to sacrifice even their lives to spread the party philosophy across the length and breadth of the country,” he said, adding that the BJP did not belong to a single family or a single individual. It was formed with the sweat and blood of the party workers. “We never craved for any power or positions. We have always believed in our party ideals and strived to propagate them,” he said.
Recalling the days of the launch of the BJP on April 6, 1980, Sanjay said the famous words of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at the Mumbai rally that ‘Andhera Chhatega, Sooraj Niklega, Kamal Khilega’ (The darkness will go, the sun will come out and the lotus will bloom)” were still reverberating in his ears. “The entire country has now realised the words of Atalji. Though the BJP had won just two Lok Sabha seats in the first parliament elections after the party foundation, it has now grown into a mighty political force with 303 Lok Sabha seats, thanks to the efforts and sacrifices made by several great leaders like Vajpayee and Advani,” Bandi said.
He asserted that the party had never got disheartened despite several turbulences in its journey, only because it was an ideology-based service-oriented party. “It made the country realise the importance of the unity among the Hindus through the Rath Yatra taken out by Advani for the construction of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya,” he said.
Though the BJP led by Vajpayee came to power in the subsequent elections, it could not sustain beyond 13 days as it had lacked absolute majority. In the mid-term elections in 1998, the BJP emerged single largest party in the country and formed the government, but it had to step down within 13 months due to withdrawal of support by the AIADMK.
In 1999, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance came to power with full majority and Vajpayee government continued for full five years.
But the major landmark in the Indian history was scripted when the BJP led by Narendra Modi came to power with 282 seats in 2014, ending the hegemony of the Congress and the regional parties. “Since then, the BJP has been making rapid strides under the leadership of Modi ji and strategic guidance of Amit Shah. India’s glory has spread world-wide and it is now emerging a global leader,” Sanjay said.
He was all praise for the Modi leadership under which several landmark decisions like abolition of triple talaq and Article 370, construction of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya and massive immunisation to counter Corona virus pandemic. “The strength of the BJP is its philosophy of Nation First, Party Next and Individual Last. Based on this spirit, the BJP has grown into a massive force that formed the government in as many as 20 States. Though the BJP was never in power in States like Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the party is able to withstand due to strong cadre. Even in Telangana, the party cadres sacrificed their lives fighting against extremists and Jihadi forces and developed it as a major political force,” he said.
BJP floor leader in the Assembly T Raja Singh, State BJP general secretaries Mantri Srinivas, Bangaru Sruthi, State vice-president Chintala Ramachandra Reddy, secretary Uma Rani and others took part in the foundation day celebrations. (PMI)
