BJP leader L.K. Advani said on Sunday that the party’s decisive victory in the Lok Sabha elections had not only changed the political landscape in the country, but also influenced the political debate in the Opposition camp.
In his valedictory address at the two-day workshop for first-time party MPs at Surajkund, Mr. Advani said Congress leader A.K. Antony’s “plain-speak” that the Congress should introspect on its policy and practice with regard to secularism vindicated what the BJP had been saying all along. “We have always said that secularism should mean justice for all, appeasement of none, discrimination against none.”
Mr. Advani said there was already a perceptible change in the way minority communities were looking at the Narendra Modi government. He asked party MPs to consolidate the positive change.
In many constituencies, minority voters had voted in good numbers for the BJP in the recent elections.
