TIL Desk/National/Chennai/ With the Bharatiya Janata Party’s ties with some of its allies under strain, party chief Amit Shah has spoke of giving “respect” to the existing partners and expanding the Centre’s ruling National Democratic Alliance by bringing in “new friends” ahead of the Lok Sabha polls next year.
In Tamil Nadu, where the party is looking for allies to broaden its support base after winning one seat in the last Lok Sabha elections, Shah invoked Tamil pride, insisting no other party was as committed to preserving it as the BJP. “We will give respect to our existing allies and bring in new friends before the Lok Sabha elections and give the nation a clean government,” he told a meeting of around 15,000 members of the Shakti and Maha Shakti Kendras of the BJP on the outskirts of Chennai.
While a Shakti Kendra in-charge is vested with the responsibility of overseeing the party work of five booth level functionaries, a Maha Shakti Kendra office-bearer is the overseer for five Shakti Kendra functionaries. Shah, under whose stewardship the BJP has scripted victories in many state assembly elections after the party came to power at the Centre in 2014, said he would announce its new partners in Tamil Nadu before the Lok Sabha elections.
