Win in 2019 will keep BJP in power for 50 years: Amit Shah

NEW DELHI: "Once BJP wins the

2019 Lok Sabha elections

, no one can throw us out in 50 years," party chief Amit Shah told the national executive meeting here on Sunday.


BJP would win the 2019 polls on the basis of its performance and the assertion was not borne out of arrogance, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad quoted Shah as having said. "Shah told party workers that BJP will win because of PM Narendra Modi's hard work… then no one can dethrone the party for the next 50 years," Prasad quoted Shah as having said.

Referring to main rival Congress, Shah said the party had first formed government in 1947 and remained in power till 1967, indicating it was BJP's turn to repeat the feat now.