The coming Lok Sabha elections will be a battle of two ideologies - the BJP's cultural nationalism and development of poor and the coming together of its rivals merely for power, BJP president Amit Shah said in New Delhi on Friday.
The Opposition parties' ''grand alliance'', which had no policy and programme, enjoyed no nationwide influence, he said in his inaugural address at the party’s convention at Ramlila Maidan.
The BJP had defeated each one of them in the 2014 general election and it would win more seats in Uttar Pradesh this time.
The BJP won 71 seats from the State that sends 80 Lok Sabha members.
Mr. Shah said the Modi government had “fulfilled” the dreams of crores of youths with 10 per cent reservation in jobs and education for the general category poor, and described the Constitution Amendment Bill as one of the most important legislations passed by Parliament.
Top party leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani, were present at the convention.