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A group of 32 National Democratic Alliance (NDA) leaders, among them a few until recently unhappy with the BJP, have unanimously acknowledged Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the country’s “most popular” leader since Independence.
This view came forth at the end of a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and leaders of the ruling NDA allies at the Centre, including the Shiv Sena, which recently fought against the BJP in the local body elections in Maharashtra.
In a resolution adopted by the NDA late Monday night the allies showered praise on the Prime Minister for his pro-poor welfare programmes. They attributed the BJP’s recent victories in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand assembly polls to these poor-centric policies of the Central government.
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The resolution read: “This mandate (state assembly poll results) has established Modi on the people’s mind as the most popular leader after independence.”
The NDA resolution underlined India’s emergence as a leading developing economy under Modi’s “extraordinary” leadership and economic experts and institutions have acknowledged it as a “great achievement”.
BJP president Amit Shah’s claim in the wake of the party’s landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand that it was an indicator of Modi’s growing popularity was echoed in the tone and tenor of the NDA resolution last night.
The Prime Minister has already sounded the bugle for the party’s preparations for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections soon after the assembly polls. BJP MPs have already been assigned to inform people about the NDA government’s plans and progamme.
The NDA meeting on Monday was an attempt to reaffirm the alliance’s unity in the aftermath of the heat and dust of the assembly polls and local body elections in some states. It came even as the Opposition anti-BJP-NDA forces rallied against the ruling combination as part of their joint strategy to take on the BJP-led alliance in 2019 and in states like Gujarat, where assembly polls are due later this year.
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