Meet the BJP: Modi pitches party to the world as foreign leaders come visiting

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New Delhi: When then Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba arrived in India on 1 April 2022 for a three-day official visit, he also visited the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters at the invitation of party president J.P. Nadda...

That was only the beginning of the BJP presidents interactions with the heads of governments a new initiative taken at the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who wanted the party to have closer ties with leaders and parties in foreign countries, a senior BJP leader told ThePrint...

When heads of the foreign government come to India, it provides an opportunity to connect with them, gain further political understanding of their party, and make them aware of the BJP, said a senior party leader...

Explaining the rationale behind the move, a party functionary said, There are a lot of things people do not know about India, the electoral reality of India, the structure and membership programme of the BJP, how we use the Namo App to connect with the cadre...

The party invited foreign politicians to observe how the BJP fights elections and took foreign diplomats to various states in India to witness the electoral process and Modis rallies during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections...