New saffron caps, all smiles — snapshots from BJP’s 42nd Foundation Day event in New Delhi
BJP held celebration at Parliament House Annexe, less than a month after its election triumphs in four states, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, and Goa.
File photo of BJP MPs listening to PM Narendra Modi’s virtual address on party’s 42nd Foundation Day at Parliament Annexe | Praveen Jain | ThePrint
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed Bharatiya Janata Party workers on the party’s 42nd Foundation Day Wednesday.
Several Union ministers and party leaders attended the meeting at the Parliament House’s Annexe building in New Delhi, where Modi claimed the Opposition’s ‘dynasty politics’ had harmed the country and let the youth down.
“For decades in our country, some political parties did only vote bank politics and made promises to only a few people, and kept the rest starving,” Modi said. “Discrimination and corruption, these are the side effects of vote bank politics. The BJP has not only given competition to this vote bank politics, but it has also been successful in explaining its disadvantages to the countrymen.”
The party’s MPs and party workers were seen wearing saffron caps — the newly-designed one that Modi wore at a roadshow in Ahmedabad. The caps are produced in Gujarat.
BJP goes into its Foundation Day celebrations on a high note after its performance in last month’s assembly elections. It retained the four states it already governed — Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, and Manipur.
ThePrint’s National Photo Editor Praveen Jain brings snapshots from the party’s Foundation Day celebrations.
Union ministers Rajnath Singh and G. Kishan Reddy interact at the BJP’s 42nd Foundation Day event at Parliament Annexe | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintMP Hema Malini attends the BJP’s 42nd Foundation Day event at Parliament Annexe | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintUnion Minister Smriti Irani smiles for the camera | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintCabinet ministers Nitin Gadkari and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintPrime Minister Narendra Modi virtually addresses leaders at the Foundation Day event | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintUnion Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman sits in a corner | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintUnion minister Hardeep Singh Puri listens intently | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintSultanpur MP Maneka Gandhi at Parliament Annexe | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintUnion Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia listens to a speech | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintBJP leaders exit after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address at the Foundation Day event | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintDelhi BJP leader Manoj Tiwari greets Union Minister Anurag Thakur and G. Kishan Reddy outside Parliament | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintWomen leaders pose for a picture | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrintSweets distributed at the BJP’s 42nd Foundation Day event | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint
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