Who will join gathbandhan if they don’t spread these lies? PM Modi dismisses suggestion BJP will get less than 180 seats
The 2019 Lok Sabha elections will be a ‘public versus coalition’ contest, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday while ridiculing the alliance proposed to be formed by anti-BJP parties.
The 2019 Lok Sabha elections will be a ‘public versus coalition’ contest, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday while ridiculing the alliance proposed to be formed by anti-BJP parties.
In an interview to ANI, he dismissed claims by some political pundits that the BJP might not get more than 180 out of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha elections, saying there were a similar ‘set of persons’ who echoed a similar narrative even in 2014.
In an extensive interview with ANI, PM Modi spoke about a wide range of topics including his relationship with Lutyens’ Delhi, upcoming 2019 electoral battle, the Rafale deal, Shiv Sena’s tantrums, the Sabarimala verdict, the Triple Talaq bill, Grand Alliance, Congress, possible ordinance on Ram Temple, farm loans, surgical strikes and former RBI governor Urjit Patel’s tenure.
The Prime Minister was responding to a question whether people had now considered the 'Mahagathbandhan' to be an alternative to Modi.He expressed confidence that the people will again repose faith in the BJP considering the work done by his government over the last four and a half years.
Major talking points:
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Fight between janta and gathbandhan: PM
‘I believe, this election is going to be a contest between those who fulfil and take forward the aspirations of the people and those who stop these aspirations. There is experience of 70 years. The public is the decider,’ the Prime Minister said when asked if the 2019 elections were heading towards a US Presidential style of elections between Modi VS Rahul.
Asked whether the upcoming Lok Sabha polls would be ‘anybody but Modi’ contest as projected by the opposition parties, he said, ‘It is going to be ‘janta (public) versus gathbandhan (coalition). Modi is just a manifestation of public love and blessings,’ he added.
Reposing faith in the ‘intelligence’ of the voters, Modi said, ‘The Indian public will decide the course of elections. The public will decide the agenda, who is for the aspirations of the people, who is against the aspirations of the people. This is going to the yardstick for the elections.’