Union Home Minister Amit Shah has asked the state BJP rank and file to supplement PM Narendra Modi’s resolve to cross a 400-seat barrier by winning all 48 Lok Sabha seats that the party and its allies will be contesting in Maharashtra. In the run-up to the general elections, Shah was addressing the party leaders at Akola in western Vidarbha where he reviewed preparation for Akola, Amravati, Buldhana, Yavatmal-Washim, Wardha and Chandrapur constituencies.

An attendee told mid-day that Shah narrated the election success stories of states like Gujarat where the party had turned the tables on the Congress’s effort to retain the seats it had won in the previous elections. In Gujarat, the BJP registered the highest number so far when it was projected to win the state with a slender margin. While crediting the party’s win across the country to the party’s rank and file, Shah appealed to every BJP affiliate in Maharashtra to work hard to help realise PM Modi’s resolve of winning over 400 seats for the NDA.