Advani coins poll slogan, puts aside saffron agenda

BJP EXECUTIVE: The BJP Executive ended on Monday on a buoyant note after the victory in Karnataka.

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New Delhi: The two day BJP National Executive was supposed to held earlier, but was shifted to June 1 due to the Gurjar agitation.

It ended on Monday in the Capital on a buoyant note after the victory in Karnataka.

The party's Prime Ministerial candidate, L K Advani, has asked party workers to aim for the 2009 general elections.

Advani, who has often exhorted partymen to have the killer instinct, told the party's National Executive that the expansion, stability and cohesion of the NDA "depends on our ability to attract and retain allies who may not be ideologically aligned with the BJP on all issues".

His comments concluding the two-day executive was in contrast to BJP President Rajnath Singh's attempt on Sunday to bring back on the saffron agenda, the contentious demands for scrapping of Article 370 and the uniform civil code, which were otherwise on the backburner because of coalition pressures.

"Let us resolve not to waste a single day, not to ignore a single task, and not to neglect a single winnable seat in order to achieve our goal of securing a decisive majority for the NDA with a BJP emerging as a strong and unshakable anchor of our alliance," Advani said.

State election committees have been asked to finalise a list of probable candidates by next month as well as a status report on around 159 constituencies where the party feels it has prospects of winning

BJP Spokesperson, Ravi Shankkar Prasad says, "The new slogan has been given by Advaniji — 'Jeetega Bharat, jeetagi Bhaajpa' (BJP's victory is India's victory)".

(With inputs from PTI)