Bharatiya Janata Party National President Amit Shah said on Saturday that Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje will be the party’s chief ministerial candidate in the upcoming Assembly elections.
“The Assembly polls will be contested under her leadership and she will again become the chief minister with a thumping majority,” he said at the concluding session of the Rajasthan BJP’s working committee meeting in Jaipur, PTI reported. “The party will once again form governments in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh also.”
Shah claimed that the welfare programmes the Raje government had introduced have been appreciated across the country, and said party workers should focus on them while running the election campaign.
Raje said that the party will get more seats this year than in the 2013 Assembly elections, and will also win all 25 Lok Sabha seats in 2019, PTI reported quoting a statement by the BJP.
BJP MLA Ashok Parnami said Shah asked the party’s cadre to work 18 hours a day. “The party workers are full of energy and fully charged,” Parnami claimed.
Later, Raje tweeted that she had met the BJP’s social media team and asked them to inform the masses about her government’s developmental work.
Raje has faced flak after the party in February lost the bye-polls to the Congress. There have also reports of in-fighting in the state BJP as some members are against Raje.
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