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UNA, MAY 27

BJP state president Satpal Singh Satti today said the BJP got 69 per cent vote share in Himachal, which is the highest in the country, in this Lok Sabha elections.

Addressing mediapersons here, he said while the credit went to the Central leadership led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah. The massive mandate also gave credit to the performance of Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur and the efforts put in by the party cadre.

Satti said while 53 per cent votes had been polled in favour of the BJP during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the figure this time was 69 per cent, while only 27 per cent people voted for the Congress. He said all 68 Assembly segments gave the BJP massive leads.

The president said party workers, panna pramukhs, block, district and state functionaries, MLAs and ministers worked in close coordination to ensure the landslide victory.

Taking on the Opposition, Satti said Congress leaders should now introspect their remarks made during and before the campaign regarding the performance of the Jai Ram government. He said some Congress leaders had been spreading a misinformation campaign against the Chief Minister, stating that his performance was poor.

Satti said the mandate to the BJP had proved that the people had accepted the functioning of theThakur government and ignored the propaganda of the Congress. He said the Chief Minister had visited every Assembly segment to understand the problems of the masses.

The BJP leader said programmes like Jan Manch had gained huge popularity due to the honest efforts by the BJP government to solve people’s problems at their doorsteps, adding that the development works, which had come to a grinding halt during the Congress regime, were revived by the government.