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

Speaking at the 47th foundation day (Sthapna Diwas) of the BJP, which was celebrated at the party's headquarters in Hyderabad's Nampally, 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 umbrel...