
Purandeswari attributes success of NDA in Andhra Pradesh to hard work of party workers
The Hindu
Andhra Pradesh BJP president praises party workers for NDA's success in State elections, highlighting strong grassroots coordination.
Attributing the success of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the recent State elections to the hard work of the party workers, Andhra Pradesh BJP president and Rajamundry MP, Daggubati Purandeswari, said that the polls are now a case study for other States on how strong will and coordination among the party workers at the grassroots level could ensure success in the elections.
She said that it was not the elected leaders, but party workers who should be felicitated for ensuring the success of the party candidates in the elections.
Ms. Purandeswari was addressing the party workers during a felicitation ceremony for the public representatives, in Visakhapatnam.
The meeting was graced by Union Minister of State for Heavy Industries & Steel, Bhupathiraju Srinivasa Varma, Health Minister Y. Satya Kumar Yadav and others.
Ms. Purandeswari said that during the 2019 elections, the vote share of BJP in Andhra Pradesh was only 0.83%, but increased to 2.84% in the 2024 elections even though the party contested from only 10 Assembly constituencies.
She remembered that the BJP had won 80% of the total MLA seats it had contested. Three of the party’s MP candidates have won with at least 2 lakh majority, she said. She said that after the Central high command announced an alliance with TDP and JSP, the party workers respected the party’s decision and put in double the efforts to work for the victory of the NDA candidates.
The BJP state president also said that the public has given huge responsibility to the party and that in the last five years, all sections of people have suffered.

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