Varanasi: Amit Shah, the architect of BJP’s landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh, is also on the plane with Modi and Rajnath to Varanasi. After having denied him permission for an election rally and another event in the city May 10, the Varanasi administration has rolled out the red carpet to welcome PM-designate Narendra Modi.
Narendra Modi has left for Varanasi after victory celebrations at BJP HQ in Delhi. First on his itinerary there would be prayers at the Kashi Vishwanath Temple. The city is all decked up to welcome their new hero, their new hope for a better tomorrow. Later, Modi will attend the ‘Ganga Aarti’ at the famed Dashashwamedh ghat.
Addressing the gathering, Narendra Modi said, Thank people of India. I also thank friends in the media for efforts towards voter awareness. Rajnath Singh said BJP’s parliamentary party will met at 12 pm on May 20 to elect the leader, adding that it was formality that needs to be carried out. The NDA partners will meet after that, he said.
Details about Narendra Modi’s oath taking ceremony will be announced after the parliamentary party meet on May 20, the BJP president said. All senior members of the BJP share stage with Narendra Modi at BJP HQ. Rajnath Singh says that Narendra Modi was praised by the parliamentary board for the leadership he gave to party’s poll campaign. BJP parliamentary board meeting ends.
All members of the BJP’s parliamentary board congratulated Narendra Modi for the spectacular victory of the party in Lok Sabha polls 2014. Party veteran LK Advani led from the front to felicitate Modi with a bouquet and a warm hug.
The parliamentary board meeting has begun at BJP headquarters. Crucial decisions on government formation are expected to be taken by the highest decision making body of the party. The party has to decide when to call a meeting of the newly-elected MPs to formally choose Narendra Modi as the parliamentary party leader. That will be followed by a meeting of the NDA where he will be elected as leader of the coalition.
The grouping will then approach President Pranab Mukherjee to convey to him the election of their leader and appoint him as the Prime Minister. Addressing the party workers, Modi said that victory became possible due to the hard work of party workers. “Lotus has shined again in Delhi”, he said.
He said. Narendra Modi reached BJP HQ. Hundreds of party workers danced on the road and chanted ‘Modi Modi’. “Lotus has shined again in Delhi. In what is symbolic in more ways than one, Narendra Modi’s route to BJP HQ will take him through Akbar Road (Congress HQ) and Janpath (Sonia Gandhi’s residence).
Accompanied by hundreds of supporters in tens of cars and bikes, the cavalcade of Narendra Modi is passing through Dhaula Kuan and will take the Sardar Patel Road to enter central Delhi. Modi’s cavalcade is moving towards central Delhi. It may stop at a few places to allow him to greet assembled crowds.
Dressed in blue, Modi waved to the crowd for a while before getting into his car, surrounded by his security guards. Narendra Modi has arrived in Delhi. An army of BJP workers, led by party president Rajnath Singh, received him at the airport and accorded him a red carpet welcome. Modi’s victory march has begun from the airport. Named ‘Vijay Yatra’, the 14-kilometre journey will take him to the BJP HQ in central Delhi.
Thousands of people have gathered along the route that will take Modi’s cavalcade through NH8, Sardar Patel Marg, Mother Teresa Crescent, Teen Murti Marg, Akbar Road and Janpath.
The ultimate ‘outsider’ has come home. Narendra Modi arrived in his new karma bhoomi, Delhi, on Saturday to a welcome which matches his success in delivering a stunning victory for the BJP.
Chided as ‘chai-wallah’ and for long considered unfit to be part of the elite who run India from Lutyen’s Delhi, Narendra Modi’s arrival as the Prime Minister holds the potential to change the ‘culture’ of country’s power centre.
A man, whose father used to sell tea and mother worked as a house maid; someone who is not a member of any powerful old boys’ club, has been put at the highest pedestal of power by the faceless but determined millions. They have chosen someone who has fought his hard way up; someone who finds solace at his mother’s feet… an ‘Aam Aadmi’ as the next Prime Minister.
Bureau Report
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