BJP yet to achieve its peak, have to take it to new regions, sections of society: Amit Shah

Days after his party achieved its best-ever Lok Sabha tally of 303 seats, BJP President Amit Shah on Thursday said the saffron party is yet to reach its peak.

BJP chief Amit Shah. PTI

NEW DELHI: Days after his party achieved its best-ever Lok Sabha tally of 303 seats, BJP President Amit Shah on Thursday said the saffron party is yet to reach its peak. Shah's remarks came here at his inaugural address to party office-bearers, state party chiefs and others at the BJP headquarters. "Amit Shah told party office-bearers that BJP has still not arrived at its peak in terms of its electoral performance," BJP General Secretary Bhupendra Yadav told reporters. "I had said in 2014 in BJP's national council meeting that we are yet to achieve our peak. Today, I am again saying the party is yet to be at its peak," Yadav quoted Shah as saying. Attributing the party's success in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls to party workers, Yadav said Shah credited the hard work of the crores of party supporters for the BJP getting more than 50 per cent vote share in 220 seats. Shah told the party leaders that the BJP has still a long way to go, urging them to devote themselves to the cause. Yadav said BJP has 11 crore members at present and is aiming to increase it by 20 per cent. In 2014, addressing BJP's two-day National Executive in Bhubaneswar in Odisha, Shah had said many people declared after the 2014 general election that the BJP reached its peak, but it was not so. "They then said in 2017 (after elections to the five states, including Uttar Pradesh) that the BJP has now attained it peak, but it is not the case. The BJP is yet to be at its peak. The BJP will attain its peak when BJP will have Chief Ministers in all the states and it has members everywhere -- from panchayats to Parliament," Shah had said. (With inputs from IANS)