Hyderabad, April 6 -- Former Haryana Governor and Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said that nobody believed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would one day form the government at the Centre, when just 2 MPs from BJP had won in the 1984 Lok Sabha elections, but all of them were proven wrong, as presently the saffron party has established its government in 19 states across the country.

Speaking at the 47th BJP's foundation Day (Sthapna Diwas) celebrated at the party's headquarters in Nampally on Monday, April 6, Dattatreya spoke about how various parties came together against the Congress government during the emergency imposed by former prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1975 under the umbrella of Janata Party, and came to power in the...