The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday evening held a closed door meeting of its office bearers at a private hotel here to review its performance in elections held for the Puducherry Parliamentary constituency during first phase of Lok Sabha election on April 19.
The review meeting, according to an office-bearer, was delayed as the BJP in-charge for the U.T., Nirmal Kumar Surana, was busy overseeing party’s election work in Maharashtra.
The leaders are confident that the party would be able to wrest the lone seat from the Congress with a thumping margin. Senior leaders who spoke at the meeting thanked its alliance partner, All India N.R. Congress, for extending full support to BJP candidate A. Namassivayam during the campaign.
Mr. Namassivayam was pitted against Congress party’s sitting MP and PCC chief V. Vaithilingam
“Party leaders, including Mr. Surana, thanked Chief Minister and AIRNC founder leader N. Rangasamy for leading the campaign. They also expressed appreciation of the election work done by BJP and AINRC legislators,” said a party functionary.
A statement from the office of Mr. Namassivayam, who is also the Home Minister of U.T., said on Wednesday that the party workers are geared up to celebrate the victory of the National Democratic Alliance in the Lok Sabha poll. The party has planned celebrations for a third term for Narendra Modi as Prime Minister of the country, the statement said.
BJP president S. Selvaganabathy and Minister for Civil Supplies A.K. Sai J. Saravanan Kumar were present at the meeting.
Published - May 22, 2024 04:16 pm IST
