Narendra Modi, Amit Shah exhort party cadres for Mission UP, 2019 Lok Sabha polls

Allahabad With eye on next years assembly polls in five states including Uttar Pradesh and on Mission 2019 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday exhorted BJP party workers to preserve the massive goodwill the party received in 2014 till the next general electionsBharatiya Janata Party BJP chief Amit Shah in his speech trained his guns at the states Samajwadi Party government and raised the issue of alleged migration of Hindus from Kairana in Shamli district and the recent Mathura violenceNarendra Modi and Amit Shah File picPTIThe Prime Minister addressing a meeting of party office bearers in Allahabad before the official inauguration of the partys twoday National Executive meet said The need of the hour is to preserve the massive goodwill that the party got in 2014 like a monsoon downpour according to a BJP leader who attended the office bearers meetThe Prime Minister also asked the party leaders to preserve its 11 crore membersReminding party leaders of Mission UP and the 2019 Lok Sabha polls Modi said the party needs to preserve these 11 crore people as voters and members of the party by involving them with social initiatives and campaigns of the BJP governmentModi also gave tips to party leaders to change in accordance with technology time and age keeping in mind the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand Punjab Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh which are due next yearHowever Amit Shah targetted the Samajwadi Party and the Congress in his speechHe attacked the SP government over the atmosphere of violence in Uttar PradeshThe incident at Kairana where a large number of people are migrating is very unfortunate The Mathura violence was also very unfortunate The SP government has been unable to control the situation Shah said in his presidential addressThere is no peace Here the atmosphere is of violence and the state government has failed to control all these the Bharatiya Janata Party president saidShah also directed his ire against the Congress saying its politics of obstructionism had become the hallmark of the main opposition party in the last two yearsThis is also the reason for the weakening of the Congress Shah maintainedProviding to the media highlights of the party presidents address Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad later said that Shah compared the performance of the previous United Progressive Alliance UPA government at the Centre with that of the BJPled National Democratic AllianceWhile there was policy paralysis in the Congressled government our government has made progress with clear policy decisions where policy decisions are taken by the political leadership and the executive implements them Prasad quoted Shah as sayingThe previous government was marred by policy paralysis Our government has been a decisive government that has ended a lot of dilemmas of the previous regime he saidThe BJP president pointed out that the two years of the Modi government have been corruptionfreeHe also asserted that the NDA governments two years have been exceptionally good and a lot has been achievedThis year two important things have happened First our government led by Narendra Modi at the Centre has completed two years And second the performance of the Bharatiya Janata Party has been very good in the state assembly elections he saidAReferring to the recent polls Shah said The victory in Assam has opened the gates to northeast India for the BJPFrom Kashmir to Kanyakumari and from Kutch to Guwahati the BJP is expanding he said at the meeting which was attended among others by senior ministers BJP chief ministers party MPs and state unit chiefsHe said The Congressled UPA government was in a dilemma whether rural development should take precedence over urban development Whether there should be reforms or social welfareOur government has overcome all such dilemmas by striking a fine balance between rural and urban development reforms and social welfare and issues of governance Prasad quoted ShahThe party chief also said that unlike in the past the disconnect between the foreign and defence policy has also been done away with in the last two yearsHe also expressed confidence that the party will return to power in Uttar Pradesh in 2017 and the Centre in 2019 as wellShah referred to the top civilian honours accorded to Modi by two prominent Islamic countries Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan in a clear message to Muslims who continue to be wary of BJP due to its Hindutva agenda