‘Aim for over 50% votes in Lok Sabha polls’: PM Modi’s advice to BJP leaders

With months left before the next Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has directed the BJP national leaders to aim to secure over 50 percent votes in the 2024 general elections.

Addressing a closed-door meeting of the party’s national office bearers in New Delhi on Friday, PM Modi urged them to work in a “mission mode”, sources told India Today.

“We won 303 seats in 2019 and will win more seats in 2024 if we work on a mission mode,” the Prime Minister said.

He also advised the party’s top brass to “express views aggressively on social media” and “give positive answers to Opposition’s negative propaganda with facts”.

The two-day meeting convened to discuss strategies for the general election was attended by national office bearers, state in-charges, state presidents, state general secretaries, and heads of all other arms.

The meeting also discussed the further operation of Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra, a nationwide campaign launched by the government to popularise and raise awareness about the welfare schemes of the central government. The party leaders have been advised to intensify their outreach around the government’s “good works”. 

Other issues reportedly discussed in the meeting include the recent assembly polls in five states and the party’s nationwide plans on the birth anniversary of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Following the recent victories in three state assembly elections, the saffron party leaders asserted that they expect a third victory at the central level in the elections scheduled to be held before May 2024.

While addressing party leaders after the poll result on December 13, PM Modi said that the BJP’s “hat-trick” in the Assembly elections had guaranteed a third win for the saffron party in the Lok Sabha elections in 2024 as well.