Prime Minister urged BJP workers to call him “Modi” instead of “Modiji”.
NEW DELHI : Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about the recent election results and the devastating impact of Cyclone Michaung at the BJP Parliamentary Party Meeting on Thursday. He urged the BJP workers to call him “Modi” instead of “Modiji”. He said, “Some things work easily in society. Instead of Modiji, you just call me Modi. Modi is just a small worker of BJP and nothing else.”
PM Modi also expressed his condolences to those who lost their lives in the aftermath of Cyclone Michaung. “All the BJP workers are busy serving the people there,” he said at the BJP Parliamentary Party Meeting.
The Prime Minister said the victory in the recent assembly elections “is the victory of our collective strength”. He said people like BJP’s governance, decision making and transparency. “It is a big thing that as a government we have positivity. Anti-incumbency does not exist in our party… Every BJP worker deserves this victory. Those people who have spent their lives in building the party also deserve this victory.”
He dismissed claims that the “BJP is good at the Center but has no strength at the state level”. The Prime Minister was quoted by news agency ANI as saying, “The election results were excellent and our strength doubled in Mizoram also. Our strength has increased manifold in Telangana.” This is
retirement like it should be, exciting & fulfilling. We can’t wait for you to call it home. Modi was given a standing ovation at the meeting by all party leaders present at the gathering following the party’s spectacular victory win in assembly elections in three states – Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. PM Modi’s leadership has been cited by the party as the primary reason for its big win.PM Modi said the Congress “was in the government for two consecutive terms and then the opportunity came to go to the elections. The Congress got this opportunity seven times and only once was the party able to enter the third term. The BJP stayed in the government for two consecutive terms and then the BJP got the opportunity to go to the elections 17 times and the BJP won 10 times. We have won a state like Gujarat, seven times. We are continuously winning in Madhya Pradesh also.
The Parliamentry Party meeting came a day after most of BJP MPs who won in the assembly election held in four states resigned from Parliament. The development is taken as big move to organisational restriction aiming upcoming Lok Sabha election 2024. The meeting was held at the Balayogi Auditorium in the Parliament House complex, ahead of the commencement of Day 4 of proceedings of the House.
The election results in four states, especially the losses in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, came as a huge blow to the Congress’s hopes for 2024 as it is now out of power across a vast swathe of the Hindi heartland. BJP has the crucial task of selecting potential chief ministerial candidates to lead new cabinets for the upcoming five years. BJP thumped not just their rivals but also some pollsters who had predicted tight races in these states.
The Saffron BJP, which had been battling close to 20 years of incumbency, won a resounding mandate bagging 163 seats while the Congress finished a distant second at 66 seats. In Rajasthan, the vote count painted a starkly different picture to what some of the pollsters had predicted, with the BJP poised to form the government, winning 115 seats, and the Congress trailing at 69 seats. Of the 90 assembly constituencies in Chhattisgarh, the BJP bagged 54 while the Congress won 35.
(Bureau Report With Media Inputs).
