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BJP TODAY
February 1--15, 2004 - Vol. 13, No. 03
India's Tomorrow Linked With NDA's Victory Today
Atalji seeks renewal and larger mandate to build strong
and prosperous India
BJP a movement for social tranformation
By our special correspondent
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has indicated a late April poll for the 14th Lok Sabha with a
call to BJP workers not to relax even for a moment before the big day - swearing-in of a NDA
Government with a two-thirds majority in the lower House of Parliament.
He made public his decisions at the concluding session of the BJP National Executive meeting
at Hyderabad on January 12, setting the NDA, the opposition and the media into a flurry of
activity prior to the crucial polling dates for the general elections.
He has directed Finance Minister Jaswant Singh to present a vote-on-account to Parliament "at
an early date" and expressed the hope that a new Government would be in place by April. He
did not say this, but it is obvious that the new government would be a NDA Government
headed by none other than Atalji.
These announcements have generated a great deal of speculations about the possible dates of
elections and the circumstances that would determine the dates of polling, to be announced
the Election Commission. However, one can safely conclude that the school final examinations
during March and harvesting of the main Rabi crop wheat and the procurement of the produce
by Government agencies would materially affect the polling dates.
Weatherwise, April is an ideal month for electioneering, although late May or even June polls
are feasible, as was the case in 1991.
Here are the salient points of Atalji's concluding remarks:
The Hyderabad meeting of the National Executive is a major landmark in the history of the BJP
and India’s democracy.
We have secured our place firmly in the politiclal arena of the country and now we are not
unfamiliar to the world. The world has come to recognize us as the dominant and a leading
constituent of the political firmament of India.
All the misconceptions and motivated propaganda about our Party have been proved wrong.
Our recent victory in the State Assembly elections has attracted the attention of the entire
world.
We have strengthened democracy in India and have accelerated the pace of development of
the country.
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