There was celebration, enthusiasm, happiness, rejoicing everywhere on the streets, in the squares in Nagpur city as Bharatiya Janata Party won the assembly polls in three states--Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. Coincidentally, Devendra Fadnavis, Deputy Chief Minister was in city for some programmes. He skipped some other assignments and participated in the victory celebrations. Fadnavis credited the victories to the transparent honesty of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.All senior leaders including Devendra Fadnavis gathered at Badkas chowk in evening to watch the victory celebrations at BJP’s Delhi headquarters live on TV screen. The TV screen was put on display at the square. Everybody watched the mesmerising speech of Narendra Modi. After the celebrations, Fadnavis garlanded the statue of Pandit Bachhraj Vyas.Pravin Datke, MLC; Girish Vyas, ex-MLC; Jitendra Kukde, City President; Dr Milind Mane, ex-MLA; Sanjay Bhende, State Vice President; Sandip Gavai; General Secretary; Dayashankar Tiwari, ex-Mayor; Girish Deshmukh, Archana Dehankar, Guddu Trivedi, Badal Raut, Akshay Thakkar, Seema Dhomne, Shyam Chandekar, Vishnu Changde and others also viewed the celebrations.

 

Earlier, the celebrations began in the afternoon when it was confirmed that BJP is forming Government in all three states. The distribution of sweets, bursting of firecrackers started at Dhantoli office of BJP. Chandrashekhar Bawankule, State BJP President; Jitendra Kukde, City President; Krishna Khopde, MLA; Pravin Datke, MLC; Vikas Kumbhare, MLA; Dr Upendra Kothekar, Vidarbha Organising Secretary reached the office. Bawankule himself played drum and encouraged everyone. Everybody raised slogans giving credit to Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. Adv Dharmpal Meshram, Ashwini Jichkar, Sanjay Bangale, Dr Kirtida Ajmera, Bhojraj Dumbe, Ajay Pathak, Subodh Acharya, Satish Siraswan, Balya Borkar, office-bearers of Bharatiya Janata Party Yuva Morcha Badal Raut, Guddu Pande, Sunil Suryavanshi, Aslam Khan and others too joined the celebrations.While interacting with mediapersons, Devendra Fadnavis, Deputy Chief Minister bubbling with happiness said, “Congress may have missed out on who is the real winner. People have a lot of faith in Narendra Modi. With the transparent honesty with which he implemented the agenda of welfare for the poor, he instilled in the people the belief that the Government is truly working for the people. This result also made it clear that the people rejected the agenda of I.N.D.I.A. and Rahul Gandhi.

 

“What characterises these results is that BJP’s average vote share has increased by more than 10 per cent. In Chhattisgarh, it increased by 14%, in Madhya Pradesh by 8% and even in Telangana by 7%. Out of total 639 seats in 4 states declared today. BJP won 339 seats which means it won more than 50% seats. If Congress does not come out of this mentality, nothing can be done about it. In the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the maximum number of MPs from BJP will be elected in Telangana. The same situation will be experienced in Karnataka,” said Fadnavis with assertion. Fadnavis expressed confidence that BJP would achieve resounding success in the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Maharashtra as well. Our leaders Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and J P Nadda have planned this election well and we congratulate them from the bottom of our heart,” Fadnavis said. Chandrasekhar Bawankule claimed that the sustainable development of the four pillars of women power, youth power, farmers and poor families along with the unwavering faith of the people in the leadership of Prime Minister Modi led to the victories.

Bawankule told media, “The victory is the result of Home Minister Amit Shah’s skillful strategy, BJP President J P Nadda’s organisational skills and the leadership of that state. I heartily congratulate all the workers, office-bearers who contributed to this wonderful victory. As BJP won in all the three states, it will win in Maharashtra too. 45 plus MPs, 225 plus MLAs of Mahayuti will be elected in Maharashtra. 350 plus NDA MPs will be elected in the country.”

 

Sanjay Bhende stated that public refused the Governments in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh as those were encouraging anarchy, crimes, corruption and exploitation. They again gave mandate to BJP in Madhya Pradesh as they believed in the leadership of Narendra Modi who will become Prime Minister in 2024 too. Ajay Sancheti, ex-Member of Rajya Sabha said confidently that these victories have made it clear that Narendra Modi would again become Prime Minister in 2024. “I congratulate all who worked hard and I thank public for putting faith in the guarantee of Modi. In last 9 years, Modi has brought everyone in mainstream especially the last one. Today’s victory is the gift from the people to Modiji,” Sancheti pointed out. Dr Parinay Fuke, ex-Minister of State analysed the victories and commented, “This is an outcome of the meticulous planning made under the leadership of Narendra Modi. These victories have given confidence to the workers like me that he will acquire the throne of Prime Minister again in 2024. Our central leadership has taught us to work with passion and don’t pay attention to what others say. We will continue to perform.”

 

“This is the slap on the party that tried to introduce casteism in politics which people disliked. Without getting detered by the criticism by opposition, Modi Government in Centre continued to implement the schemes of people’s welfare,” responded Dayashankar Tiwari, ex-Mayor. Virendra Kukreja, President of BJP Vyapari Aaghadi, Maharashtra State gave full credit of Party’s victory to Narendra Modi calling him as ‘One Man Army’. These victories have broken the backbone of the power-hungry parties which joined hands to defeat BJP, Kukreja criticised. “Congress had started giving wrong messages during the polls and was confidently saying that it would win in all the states. Our Central leadership kept quiet and kept encouraging the workers like me. I felt proud of those who worked tirelessly during the elections and clinched the victories for BJP,” said Sandip Gavai. “People have voted for development schemes, women safety, employment guarantee to youngsters ensured by Narendra Modi. The micro planning by the party brought victory in three states,” explained Chandan Goswami, State Spokesperson.