Setting a high target for itself of winning more than 400 seats in the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has swung into action full throttle with new slogan, ‘Teesri baar Modi Sarkar, ab ki baar 400 paar’. The party held a meeting recently chaired by National President JP Nadda. The meeting was also attended by Labour and Employment Minister Bhupendra Yadav, Minister of Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, National General Secretary Tarun Chugh, and National General Secretary Sunil Bansal. In addition to the election slogan, the party also decided convenors and co-convenors at the State Assembly and Lok Sabha levels. According to some officials, the visits of the Prime Minister, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and BJP President JP Nadda will begin in Lok Sabha clusters.”
The cluster-making formula discussed in the last office-bearers meeting, also attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, aims to win more than 400 Lok Sabha seats in the upcoming election.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has launched a campaign video for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections asserting ‘phir aayega Modi’ (Modi will come again). The 10-minute video starts with the sound of a conch shell followed by clips of his temple run, the installation of Sengol at the new Parliament building, and his public rallies.
बजेगा डंका, काम के दम का!
राम जी देंगे सद्बुद्धि, फिर आएगा मोदी।
मोदी एक व्यक्ति नहीं है, देश का है वो सम्मान,
140 करोड़ लोगों की आशाओं की है पहचान।
फिर आएगा, फिर आएगा मोदी। pic.twitter.com/mcdTElq2ru
— BJP (@BJP4India) December 28, 2023
The video also features India’s recent achievements in various fields, including Chandrayaan’s successful landing on the Moon’s south pole. The campaign song suggests that the party’s poll plank will focus on the promises fulfilled by the BJP in the past 10 years under Modi.
Not only the BJP, the opposition I.N.D.I.A bloc too have started the preparations in full swing. While the BJP launched its campaign song, “Phir aayega Modi”, the Congress organised its “Hain Taiyaar Hum” ( we are ready) rally on its 138th Foundation Day in Nagpur, which is the headquarters of BJP’s ideological parent, the RSS.
The Congress party has also constituted the manifesto committee for the upcoming 2024 general elections and appointed former Union minister, P Chidambram as the chairman. Former Chhattisgarh deputy chief minister T Singh Deo has been given the charge of Convenor of the committee. The 16-member panel includes Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Former Union ministers Anand Sharma, Jairam Ramesh and Shashi Tharoor are also part of the committee.
The development follows a significant Congress Working Committee (CWC) gathering where the party deliberated on its strategy for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and stated that it will soon disclose the candidates’ names.
Senior Congress leader and former Manipur deputy chief minister Gaikhangam and the party’s deputy leader in the Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi are also in the committee, along with All India Professionals Congress chief Praveen Chakravarty. The other members of the key panel, which will finalise the party’s agenda for the election, are Imran Pratapgarhi, K Raju, Omkar Singh Markam, Ranjeet Ranjan, Jignesh Mevani and Gurdeep Sappal.
The recent hat-trick of victories in three state assemblies, combined with Modi’s immense popularity and emotive issues such as the Ram Temple inauguration in Ayodhya, has made a third, straight term for the BJP at the Centre ‘almost an inevitability’, read a column in the UK-based daily, The Guardian. The Ram Temple will be one of the biggest issues likely to dominate the BJP’s agenda before the general elections. After assembly wins in three states, PM Modi himself didn’t hold back from predicting that “this hat-trick has guaranteed the 2024 victory”,
Modi’s popularity as a political strongman, taking Hinduism on the global map, government policies towards the girls and women and for the weaker sections of the society, both at the state and national level, has enabled the apparatus of the country skewed heavily towards the BJP since 2014.
Whereas, the recently formed coalition of all major opposition parties, I.N.D.I.A, is yet to unite on crucial issues, though it has vowed to fight the BJP collectively. The stakes are high for the bloc, for a single miscalculation can be disastrous for it’s survival.
