The BJP ended its national executive meeting here on Monday with a political resolution that termed itself “the party of the present and the future” and the only “pan-Indian party.”
The party has been upbeat since the good show in the recent Assembly elections, with the party having formed a government in Assam, and opening its account in the Kerala Assembly.
While the dominance of one party, the decline of the Congress and the strong showing of regional parties was a theme in this executive meeting, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who briefed the press on the resolution said the party also discussed the fact that India had a bipolar polity for a while, “but the gap in the strengths of these two poles was too great at this point.”
The party has identified seven States for expansion including Assam (where it formed the government for the first time), West Bengal, Kerala, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu spanning the “Coromandel Coast.”
‘Ideological win’
The resolution made a special mention of Assam, terming the party’s victory there as important for national security.
“The BJP does not look at this victory as just another Assembly poll win, but a major ideological one,” it said. It also mentioned the setting up of the North East Development Alliance of several north-eastern States as the NDA’s eastern version.
The resolution also noted that despite working hard the party could not make much headway in Tamil Nadu.
“The 2014 elections saw BJP emerge as the fulcrum of national politics, the results of the Assembly polls in 2016 came when the NDA government completed its second year at the helm. The Modi government’s popularity has grown,” the Union Finance Minister said.
