Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed deep grief over the demise of senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Shri Ramachandra Gowda in a post on his social media account X. Modi shared the message from his official handle @narendramodi, describing the leader's passing as a significant loss for the party.
What Modi wrote in the post
At the start of his post, Narendra Modi wrote that he was deeply saddened by the demise of senior BJP leader Shri Ramachandra Gowda. He described Gowda as a pillar of the party in Karnataka, noting that he had devoted several decades of his life to strengthening the organisation right from the grassroots level.
According to Modi, Ramachandra Gowda played a major role in building and expanding the party's organisational base at the ground level. He also mentored generations of party workers over the years, which Modi credited with deepening the party's connect with grassroots karyakartas. Modi described this as one of Gowda's most defining contributions.
His journey began as a corporator
Further into the post, Narendra Modi began describing Ramachandra Gowda's political journey, writing that he started out as a corporator. The post, however, was cut off at this point, so the remaining details of his political career have not been made available so far.
Why such messages matter
In Indian politics, it has long been customary for a party's top leadership to issue condolence messages when a senior leader or worker passes away. Such messages offer support to the family and supporters of the deceased, while also publicly acknowledging the years of grassroots work put in by long serving party functionaries. Modi's post can be seen as part of that same tradition.
Public reaction
Modi's post drew a mixed response on social media. Several users expressed condolences over Ramachandra Gowda's demise and praised his decades long contribution to the party, while some other users used the post to raise unrelated personal questions and issues of their own.
