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After campaigning from 7500 miles away, BJP overseas group in the US celebrates win

File Photo: OFBJP Atlanta president Vasu Patel and others at a rally in downtown Atlanta earlier this year. Photo courtesy Vasu Patel.

New York, May 23 (IANS & Staff) After a four-month campaign from 12,000 kilometers (nearly 7500 miles) away for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Overseas Friends of BJP-USA (OFBJP) is planning celebrations in 20 cities for the party’s victory, according to its President Krishna Reddy Anugula.

In Atlanta, OFBJP organized an overnight vigil to watch the results at the Gokuldham Hall in Buford, GA. A victory celebration was held at Adda Sports Pub & Eatery in Suwanee on Thursday, May 24th evening and was well attended by over 60 community members despite the short notice.

Anugula told IANS on Thursday that over 1,000 volunteers from his organisation participated in phone bank call-a-thons that made more than 1 million calls to people in India asking them to vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party.

The OFBJP is going to hold victory celebrations in 20 US cities including New York, Washington, Chicago and San Francisco, Reddy said.

Indian-Americans in Atlanta at the watch party organized by OFBJP USA at Gokuldham Hall in Buford last night. Photo by Vinod Sharma, SFA Productions.

During the four months before the elections, the OFBJP also held yagnas, “Chowkidar Marches” and other programmes to encourage Indian citizens here to support Modi and to boost the party’s image in India, he said.

As the election trends started trickling in starting at around 11 p.m. on Wednesday night (local time), the OFBJP and the US-based station TV Asia began an overnight election watch in Edison, New Jersey, he said. 

The group in a statement said: “Overseas Friends of BJP-USA congratulates Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party President Amit Shah, BJP leaders, millions of volunteers and volunteers of OFBJP and NRIs4Modi across the globe who toiled hard for this stupendous victory.”

“Millions of voters, including first time voters have participated enthusiastically in this world’s largest democratic elections to elect an able and proven leader, Narendra Modi,” it said.

Reddy asserted that although the BJP did not make a sweep of his home state of Telangana, his party was emerging as the main challenger to the Telangana Rashtriya Samithi (TRS) improving its position both in the number of votes and seats.

In neighboring Andhra Pradesh, the defeat of the Telugu Desam Party showed that the people of the state were ready for change and a corruption-free administration. It presented the BJP future opportunities there, he said.

TV Asia, the largest India-oriented TV operation in the US, held a marathon overnight coverage of the Indian elections for its viewers across the US, News Director Rohit Vyas told IANS.

The news operations, which are separate from the company’s community outreach and is politically independent, had representatives of both the OFBJP and the Overseas Indian Congress, as well as Indian community leaders on its programme analysing the elections, he added.

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Nisha May 24, 2019 at 6:03 pm

these are self-serving, opportunists who call them community leaders

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