The North News
New Delhi, January 20
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that in party matters he regarded himself as a worker. “When it comes to party matters, I am a worker and you are my boss,” he said, addressing the leaders and party workers at a felicitation ceremony of newly elected BJP president Nitin Nabin at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi. Prime Minister Modi said Nabin’s role would go beyond managing the party, adding that he would also be responsible for ensuring coordination among all allies of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
Congratulating Nabin, the Prime Minister said the BJP’s organisational election process demonstrated the party’s commitment to internal democracy, discipline and a karyakarta-centric culture. He praised party workers across the country for strengthening what he described as a democratic exercise.
Highlighting the BJP’s leadership legacy, Modi referred to leaders such as Syama Prasad Mookerjee, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi. He said the party had grown through experience, service and organisational strength, reflected in three consecutive BJP-led governments at the Centre.
On Nabin’s leadership, the Prime Minister said organisational expansion and the development of party workers remained core priorities. He added that Nabin’s simplicity, organisational experience and youthful energy would help strengthen the BJP as India moves towards its goal of becoming a developed nation by 2047.
Referring to the completion of 75 years of the Jan Sangh, Modi said the BJP had emerged as the world’s largest political party, while its ideology and commitment to the nation had remained unchanged despite changes in leadership.
The Prime Minister said the BJP had expanded its electoral footprint over the past 11 years, gaining public trust from panchayats to Parliament. He noted that the party had formed governments for the first time in states such as Haryana, Assam, Tripura and Odisha, and had emerged as a significant political force in West Bengal and Telangana.
Modi also pointed to recent assembly and local body elections, saying the BJP-NDA’s strike rate had been unprecedented, with the alliance winning four of six assembly elections held in the past two years.
Describing the BJP as a party of governance, he said it represented stability, good governance and development, with a focus on social justice and last-mile delivery of welfare schemes.
