He was addressing the media along with Modi, Advani and other top leaders after over an hour long meeting of the Parliamentary Board, where it also appointed observers to elect its leaders in states where assembly elections took place.
“The people of India have spoken and spoken decisively. For the first time since Independence, a non-Congress political party has got a majority on its own. The NDA has got an overwhelming mandate to govern.
“India needs a government which is effectively led, and which can put the country's economy on a growth track, makes it secure and provides a government in accordance with the highest standard of probity,” the resolution also said. Rajnath announced that party leader Thawarchand Gehlot was elected as observer for the May 20 Parliamentary Party meeting where Modi will be formally elected.
He also announced that Rajiv Pratap Rudy will be observer for Arunachal Pradesh, Prakash Javadekar for Odisha, Ravi Shankar Prasad for Andhra Pradesh and J P Nadda for Telangana, where newly-elected BJP MLAs will elect their leaders in the respective state assemblies.
Rajnath also said that this was the first time that the political stature of BJP had grown more than the Congress, as no party had ever achieved this earlier. Addressing partymen, Modi credited BJP's landslide victory to 125 crore people of India and the hard work by millions of BJP workers.
“As a person, Modi requests all of you, don't give credit of this victory to Modi. It is the result of hard work of lakhs of workers. This victory belongs to those four-five generations who have toiled hard since 1952. “The first credit for this victory goes to 125 crore Indians and the second to those martyred since 1952. In the last 25 years, thousands of our workers were killed in states like Kerala and those who gave up their lives in Tamil Nadu,” he said.
Modi broke away from his security cover to go out and address the party workers who had converged outside the BJP headquarters to get a glimpse of their leader and take part in the celebrations.
