BJP national executive meeting: 2019 win will be bigger than PM Modi's 2014 victory, Amit Shah says

The Bharatiya Janata Party, with an eye on the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, is holding its national executive meeting at the Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi.

The meeting, which began on Sunday, is seeing participation from union ministers, chief ministers of BJP-ruled states and party Members of Parliament and Members of Legislative Assembly.

BJP national president Amit Shah on Sunday met several state-incharges, state presidents and even state general secretaries to review party performance.

Today, Prime Minster Narendra Modi is expected to deliver the valedictory address to party members.

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• Goyal also said that Shah spoke about the Doklam standoff between India and China, launded PM Modi and Home Minister Rajnath Singh for curbing terrorism and thanked Sushma Swaraj for her hard-hitting speech at the UN General Assembly.
• Goyal also said that the BJP is working on expanding the party and has added 3,92,802 new workers under its Vistarak Yojna.
• PM Modi, President Kovind and Vice President Naidu are examples of the politics of performance, Goyal said as he condemned what he called Rahul Gandhi's 'dynastic appeasement'.
• Addressing the press, Union minister Piyush Goyal says that the BJP is working to make politics of performance the standard in the country.

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• Shah is also learnt to have said that the BJP will not only win in the 2019 Lok Sabha election but will win with a mandate greater than the 2014 election.
• Sources tell India Today that BJP chief Amit Shah, in his opening remarks, took a dig at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and said, "Dynasty or family connections in launching careers is a tradition of the Congress and not of India.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will address the BJP national executive meeting later today, is also at the conclave.
• Party chief Amit Shah inaugurated the meeting today with an address to party members.

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• The BJP meeting today comes on the birth anniversary of Hindutva icon Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya.

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• Party chief Amit Shah has reached the Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi where the BJP meeting is being held.

• #Delhi: Leaders arrive for BJP National Executive Meet, to begin shortly. pic.twitter.com/19kNuXu5en- ANI (@ANI) September 25, 2017

• Highly placed sources have told India Today that West Bengal and Kerala will find prominent mention at the BJP executive meeting.
• India Today has also learnt that an economic resolution hailing PM Modi's demonetisation exercise as a 'brave and bold' is likely to be passed at the meeting.