Modi in organization and government
By deciding to send Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh pracharak Narendra Modi to politics in the BJP, the Sangh had started implementing the hidden agenda of building a Hindu Rashtra.
Narendra Modi joined BJP in 1987. The Ahmedabad local election of 1987 was the first responsibility of the BJP. This included propaganda. Narendra Modi promised that BJP will rename Ahmedabad as Karnavati. BJP won the election but the name of Ahmedabad was not Ashaval or Karnavati till 2022.
The Congress won 141 seats in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly in 1980 and 149 in 1985. In 1990, he was part of the team that chalked out the strategy for the Gujarat Assembly elections. Congress lost power as a result of this election. The Congress tally was reduced to 33 seats. The BJP won 67 seats by agreeing to contest the election from Kimlop with Chimanbhai Patel. The BJP party joined the coalition government with Chimanbhai Patel. He was a minister in the Keshubhai Patel government.
Keshubhai Patel, Nathalal Wangra, Prahlad Patel, Shankarsinh Vaghela, Suresh Mehta, Kashiram Rana, Narendra Modi were actively involved in campaigning for the 1995 assembly elections. For the first time, BJP has decided to contest on all 182 seats. The results were historic as the party won 121 seats and the BJP formed the government.
Organized ‘Naya Yatra’ in the state in 1987 and ‘Lok Shakti Yatra’ in 1989. Due to these efforts, the BJP government was first formed in Gujarat for a short period in 1990 and then it is under BJP rule from 1995 till now.
In the year 1996, Shankarsinh Vaghela rebelled because of Narendra Modi. Under the agreement, BJP punished Narendra Modi by sending him out of Gujarat. You were sent to Delhi as National Secretary of BJP. In 1998, he was made the National General Secretary. He was given the charge of North Indian states like Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.
In 1998, BJP formed the government in Himachal. Like Gujarat, coalition governments were formed in Haryana in 1996, in Punjab in 1997 and in Jammu and Kashmir.
Modi was entrusted with the role of the general secretary of the organisation. He played the role of General Secretary in the 1998 and 1999 Lok Sabha elections. The BJP emerged as the single largest party in both the elections and formed the government under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Modi created a new leadership in the organisation. Young workers were encouraged. Emphasis was also laid on the use of technology in the election campaign. Between 1998 and 2004, the BJP rose from 2 MPs to form the government at the Centre.
After living in Delhi for three years, he established and influenced Atwani, Bajpai and important leaders of the Sangh. At that time, Keshubhai Patel’s government in Gujarat was successful in convincing Delhi leaders that the Kutch earthquake had failed to act. That’s why Advani took forward the popular government of Gujarat by telling Bajpai and made Narendra Modi the Chief Minister of Gujarat from Delhi in 2001. This was the first appointment of BJP who was not elected by the people of Gujarat as MLA and made Chief Minister.
He became a Hindu hero and was re-elected chief minister in 2002, 2007 and 2012 after inciting communal riots in Gujarat. The then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Bajpai decided to remove Modi from the post of Chief Minister as the country became infamous worldwide due to communal riots in Gujarat in 2002. But Modi’s political guru Lal Krishna Advani, who came to India from Pakistan, saved him.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP won a majority for the first time in three decades. Narendra Modi took oath as the Prime Minister of India for the first time on 26 May 2014 and for the second time on 30 May 2019.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Modi was successful in reaching the post of Prime Minister by eliminating his political mentor LK Advani. Celebrating 35 birthdays in his 35 years of public life from 1987 to 2022, he ended the political careers of many and promoted many who had no talent.