BJP Foundation Day: PM Modi’s Special Message For Party Workers; Shah, Nadda, Rajnath Also Extend Greetings – News18

As the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrates its 44th Foundation Day on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a special said that the party managed to fulfil the aspirations of the Indian youth and provided the required 21-st century leadership to the nation.

Extending wishes to all the BJP workers across the nation on X, PM Modi wrote, “I also recall with great reverence the hard work, struggles and sacrifices of all those great women and men who built our Party over the years. I can say with great confidence that we are India’s preferred party, which has always served with the motto of ‘Nation First.’

Referring to the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections, the prime minister also said the BJP is now India’s preferred party and expressed confidence that people will elect it for another term at the Centre, allowing it to build on the “ground covered in the last decade”.

Modi further asserted the BJP has freed India from the culture of corruption, cronyism, casteism, communalism and vote bank politics, which was the “hallmark” of those who ruled the nation for the longest time.

Union Home Minister and former BJP President Amit Shah also took to social media to congratulate party workers on the completion of the outfit’s 44 years and lauded the courage of the saffron party’s founding fathers.

“I salute the countless workers who have dedicated their lives in the journey of making BJP the world’s largest political party. With unwavering dedication towards the organization, loyalty towards work and the resolve to build the nation, the dedicated workers working day and night have made BJP a powerful medium of hope and aspiration for crores of countrymen,” Shah wrote on X.

BJP National President JP Nadda said, “On the foundation day of the Bharatiya Janata Party, I pay my respects to all my senior leaders, who gave the organization nationwide expansion through their sacrifice, dedication and hard work. On this occasion, the heartiest wishes of the foundation day are to all the workers.”

“In the last 10 years, Modiji’s policies have brought positive changes in the lives of people. I call upon each of our workers to sacrifice their duties for the overall progress of Mother India,” he added.

Defence Minister and BJP veteran Rajnath Singh also congratulated party workers on the party’s foundation day.

“Heartiest greetings on the foundation day of BJP. I congratulate all the party workers, who on the basis of their tireless hard work have made BJP the number one political party not only in India but in the world,” Singh wrote.

Foundation of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

The BJP was founded in 1980 by leaders of the erstwhile Bharatiya Jana Sangh, a party which has merged with other opposition parties to form the Janata Party to take on the Congress in the post-Emergency 1977 polls. It won only two Lok Sabha seats in the first national election it fought in 1984.

However, it rose rapidly later under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L K Advani, coming to power in the 90s as the head of a coalition, before Modi led the party to its maiden majority in 2014 and then to a bigger mandate in 2019.