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Discipline prerequisite for victory: Rajnath

BJP president Rajnath Singh

KOCHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh has urged the party cadres in Kerala to focus on “one, two or three” winnable constituencies so that the State can chip in the party’s national victory in next year’s Lok Sabha election.

Addressing the State council meeting of the party here on Sunday, Mr. Singh stressed that in order to send the BJP members to the Lok Sabha, internal discipline was a prerequisite. Quoting a mathematical equation, Mr. Singh, a former physics teacher, said the joint strength of person A and person B would be much more than those of their separate individual strengths and thus the party leaders should work together. Pointing out that the BJP had won four State Assembly elections last year, Mr. Singh claimed that there was a pro-BJP mood in the country now and that the party would return to power at the Centre next year. “There is nothing that can deter the BJP from coming to power next year,” he said.

In Kerala, the BJP would be the main opposition soon, he said. The ruling CPI(M) in the State was disintegrating. It was no longer a party of the poor, but a bourgeois party mired in corruption. “The CPI(M) in Kerala is a Rs.5,000-crore party,” Mr. Singh alleged.

He cautioned the CPI(M) against attacking the BJP cadre and said his party’s central leadership would send in `all assistance’ to Kerala to pay back the CPI(M), though ‘non-violently’.

P.K. Krishanadas, BJP State president, praising Gujarat for its economic development said that what Kerala needed was a `Gujarat model.’ “When (we) see the economic prosperity of Gujarat, (we) long for a Gujarat-model of development here also,” he said. He claimed that the Ministers in Kerala were squabbling among themselves. “When the LDF took power in 2006, there were 19 Chief Minsters; now there are 18 Chief Ministers and one ordinary Minister,” he quipped.

Mr. Krishnadas accused the CPI(M) of unleashing violence against the BJP cadres. He alleged that the former BJP State president C.K. Padmanabhan’s house was attacked allegedly by CPI(M) activists on Sunday morning.

He said that the BJP would observe a protest day on Monday against the attack on Mr. Padmanabhan’s house.

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