Narendra Modi finally to get promotion in BJP

New Delhi, Feb 3: Now it's confirmed that

Chief Minister

is going to get a promotion in the Bharatiya Janata Party (

). Modi along with along with Shivraj Singh Chauhan are likely to get berths in the party's parliamentary board soon.

In order to bring the Gujarat CM to the centre-stage of national politics ahead of general election 2014, the party is likely to include Modi in the highest decision-making body of the BJP.

BJP's decision on Modi surfaced just a day after Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi's statement calling "Narendra Modi a towering symbol of nationalism".

"Narendra Modi has definitely emerged, over the years, as a towering symbol of nationalism with proven record of providing good governance and tackling terrorism and lawlessness," Naqvi told reporters on Saturday, Feb 2.

"Although he is the Chief Minister of Gujarat, his popularity has been gradually growing outside the state and it would not be wrong to say that he has gained a country-wide appeal," he said.

The BJP leader, however, hastened to add, "We, in the BJP, are proud of the fact that we have a number of capable leaders who have the skill to face any type of challenge. "A formal decision (with regard to projecting a Prime Ministerial candidate) will be taken at an appropriate time," he said.

"BJP is not a party in which leaders are chosen on the basis of the family they are born in. It is a party wherein all start off as dedicated workers and rise through the ranks through sheer hard work," Naqvi said in an apparent reference to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

Naqvi said the UPA government at the Centre seems to derive "sadistic pleasure" whenever the people of the country suffer on account of a fresh spurt in prices.

When asked about his visit, the BJP leader said he had come to take a holy dip in the Sangam at the ongoing Maha Kumbh congregation. "I will also offer prayer with the wish that the people of the country get rid of a corrupt and insensitive government."

OneIndia News
(With PTI inputs)