Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, 18 February, arrived at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg, outside Lutyens' Bungalow Zone in Delhi to inaugurate the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) new headquarters, where he addressed party workers and senior BJP leaders.
The new office is a multi-storeyed modern construction fitted with advanced communication tools. It will enable party office-bearers to co-ordinate official works with their counterparts in the states, ANI reported.
The construction of the new headquarters had started in 2017, following the Supreme Court's directive that the party offices should be relocated from the Lutyens' Bungalow Zone.
Prime Minister Modi and party chief Amit Shah in 2017 had laid the foundation stone of the new headquarters, and a Mumbai-based architecture company has designed the new headquarters. The prime minister added that democracy was the party's “core value which enables it to take along allies successfully”.
Is this the BJP office or my office? Every party worker should think this is my office. This office isn’t for the party’s roadmap, it is for realising the hopes and dreams of the party workers... the spirit of this office is the party worker.PM Narendra Modi
The Prime Minister also invoked the legacy of SP Mukherjee and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya. “Ours was a journey that began with greats, such as Dr Syama Prasad Mukherjee and Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya. Generations of workers have given their lives for the party “, he said.
BJP Chief Amit Shah said that the dream of “millions of workers” across the country has been fulfilled.
Today is a very auspicious day for the BJP. A dream of millions of workers across the country is going to be fulfilled.Amit Shah
Shah said the BJP is on the course of having its own office in almost every district of the country in a year, and noted that the party, at its national executive meeting in 2015, had decided to own an office in 635 of 694 districts in the country, reported PTI. He also added that in a year, all the district headquarters of the BJP would be constructed and will get connected with the central office.
In his presence, Shah hailed the Prime Minister and said that his mass popularity was one of the reasons that party had chief ministers in 19 states..
In 2014, people expressed their confidence in Modiji by electing a government with full majority. After that, the way Modiji ran the country and the way it’s (government) fragrance reached the people, the party became much stronger.Amit Shah at the new BJP headquarters, as reported by IANS
He also lauded the workers for building the multi-storey three-tower premises in 18 months. The new headquarters is fitted with the latest communication technologies and hosts a spacious social media office. The prime minister can address a state executive from here, he said.
Shah also claimed that at an area of over 1.70 lakh sq ft, the BJP office is bigger than that of any other party in the world.
The new premises will have facilities like offices of the party leaders, auditoriums and rooms for discussions and meetings. The party headquarters will be linked through video-conferencing to all the state headquarters of the party.
BJP veteran LK Advani, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Piyush Goyal are also present at the venue to attend the inauguration ceremony.
(With inputs from ANI, PTI and IANS)
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