Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Sunday said that for a political leader, the party should be like his family and he should consider the party workers as his family members. Gadkari was addressing a gathering after laying the foundation stone for the BJP’s new office in Maharashtra’s Nagpur city. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and BJP state chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule were also present in the programme. The Bharatiya Janata Party is also celebrating its foundation day on Sunday. The BJP was founded on April 6, 1980 by leaders of the erstwhile Bharatiya Jana Sangh, a party which had merged with other opposition parties to form the Janata Party to take on the Congress in the post-Emergency 1977 polls. Story continues below this ad The BJP won only two Lok Sabha seats in the first national election it fought in 1984. However, it rose rapidly later under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L K Advani, coming to power in the 90s as the head of a coalition, before Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the party …