Under PM Modi, country is seeing end of ‘politics of caste, dynasty and appeasement’: Amit Shah

BJP president Amit Shah on Sunday credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi with laying the foundation of an “unbeatable” BJP in Gujarat while fighting a smear campaign.

“It is easy to make governments. It is hard to make a good karyakarta (party worker),” Shah said, lauding Modi’s role in building the organisation at the grassroots level. Modi laid the foundation of a strong and “ajeya” (unbeatable) BJP in Gujarat, he said after releasing the Hindi translation of a book on Modi ‘Hamare Narendrabhai’ authored by Dinesh Desai. “Modi’s life has been full of hardship. Many people tried to malign him, but he has come this far while countering such people,” he added.

Shah said the role of party as an important part of democracy was established for the first time in the 1995 Gujarat Assembly polls when there was change of power (from Congress to BJP) without any significant development like Emergency or the Ram Mandir issue. “This is the first instance of victory due to building a strong party organisation,” Shah said. Modi took over as Gujarat chief minister in October 2001 but was involved for long in building the party in the state.

“As CM, Modi had promised to bring ele …read more