The PM says the results in Tripura, where the BJP ended 25 years of Left rule, gave him immense joy
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that the people of the North-East have rejected the "politics of hate" by voting the BJP to power.
He was addressing a youth convention via video-conferencing near Bengaluru in Karnataka — a Congress-ruled state that goes to the polls later this year.
This was after the BJP wrested Left bastion Tripura and its ally NDPP staked claim to form the next government in Nagaland. The BJP may also share power even in hung Meghalaya despite the Congress emerging as the single-largest party.
The PM said the results in Tripura, where the BJP ended 25 years of Left rule, gave him immense joy. "The brothers and sisters of the northeast have rejected the politics of hate by unanimously voting the BJP to power," he said.
The NDA already controls Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh. Congress-ruled Mizoram will vote later this year. Modi said people were feeling cut off from India due to the policies and decisions of the previous Left and Congress regimes in the North-East.
The PM said his government at the Centre has been working relentlessly to wipe off this feeling.
"Our government has resolved to work in such a way that no part of the country and no group feel alienated, and we have proved this by working towards it," he said. The BJP and its allies now rule at least 21 of India's 29 states, boosting the prospects for Modi's re-lection in 2019.
"This wave of integration can also be felt among the people of Karnataka," he said. The mandate which the people of northeast have given is in itself is a very big change, Modi said.
By participating in the happiness of the people of the North-East through the Assembly polls results, the whole country has sent a strong message that they were with their dreams and sentiments, he said.
"For the country's unity, showing solidarity to the sentiments of the North-East is a necessity and a very big thing," he said. Modi said the results of the North-East Assembly polls have created an environment of festivity in the entire country.
The PM said the Assembly polls also brought the whole country together to celebrate the happiness of the people living there.
"I don't see the North-East poll results through the lens of victory and defeat of political parties, but what is important is that the whole country became participants in the happiness of people residing there," he said.
Modi said such occasions were rare that accomplishments of the North-East become accomplishments of the whole country.
"We all saw this happening when many Indians, who were glued to the television as though they themselves were in the electoral battlefield, started to realise the happiness, dreams and sentiments of the people of the North-East astheir own," he said.
— With PTI inputs
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