Amit Shah urges Maharashtra BJP to secure all 48 Lok Sabha seats

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has asked the state BJP rank and file to supplement PM Narendra Modi's resolve to cross a 400-seat barrier by winning all 48 Lok Sabha seats that the party and its allies will be contesting in Maharashtra. In the run-up to the general elections, Shah was addressing the party leaders at Akola in western Vidarbha where he reviewed preparation for Akola, Amravati, Buldhana, Yavatmal-Washim, Wardha and Chandrapur constituencies.

An attendee told mid-day that Shah narrated the election success stories of states like Gujarat where the party had turned the tables on the Congress's effort to retain the seats it had won in the previous elections. In Gujarat, the BJP registered the highest number so far when it was projected to win the state with a slender margin. While crediting the party's win across the country to the party's rank and file, Shah appealed to every BJP affiliate in Maharashtra to work hard to help realise PM Modi's resolve of winning over 400 seats for the NDA.

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He told leaders that taking PM Modi's welfare schemes and development work to the people would be the best way to seek their valuable votes. He advised them to reach every doorstep to connect with people. "Work 24 hours for the NDA candidates just like you work for the BJP's nominee. Tell people that NDA's victory is essential to keep the pace of development intact," said Shah, who was scheduled to meet the NDA partners, CM Eknath Shinde and DyCM Ajit Pawar late Tuesday night to discuss the sharing of seats for the Lok Sabha elections.

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Later in Jalgaon, Shah attacked Sharad Pawar, the Gandhis and Uddhav Thackeray. He told the party's youth jamboree that the Opposition asked PM Modi about his performance report card. "I want to tell Sharad Pawar that Modi became the PM 10 years ago. But the people of Maharashtra have been shouldering you for the past 50 years. Forget 50 years, give us your report card of at least five years."

He said Gandhis and Uddhav Thackeray were all for keeping high posts in the party. "Sonia Gandhi wants to make Rahul Gandhi PM. Uddhav Thackeray wants to make Aaditya Thackeray the CM. Sharad Pawar wants to make Supriya Sule the CM. Mamata Banerjee has her nephew as her political heir. Stalin is promoting his son. Tell me, which of these are for you? It is only Modi who is for you..."

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No of seats BJP wants to cross in LS