BJP changes address, Amit Shah says building bigger than any party HQ

The BJP headquarters changed its address in Delhi after 34 years — from 11, Ashoka Road to 6-A, Deendayal Upadhyaya Marg — as Prime Minister inaugurated the building on Sunday and gave all credit for the party’s onward march to its ideologues, seniors and party workers.

“This is not a building made of bricks and mortar, it is a monument of the sacrifice of workers,” the PM said. Several generations of workers have spent their lives to further the vision of ideologues Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerjee and Deendayal Upadhyaya, he said.

Modi arrived with party chief Amit Shah and took seniors LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi along to the dais.

It’s bigger than the office of any other political party in the world, Shah said. “BJP is on the course of having its own office in almost every district of the country in a year,” he said.

The 70-room space’s foundation stone was laid by Modi on August 18, 2016. The main block is seven-storey high, and the other two have three storeys each on a two-acre campus.