‘Opposition predicting BJP loss in 2019 just to win allies’
TNN | Jan 2, 2019, 03:34 IST
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the opposition hype that BJP will fall short of 200 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls is just a ploy to win over potential allies for their ‘Gatbandhan’.
“If they do not do this sort of maths and spread such things how will people join their Gathbandhan. They will have to talk big to attract people to themselves,” Modi said in an interview to ANI when asked about the opposition’s claims of “Club 180”- that the ‘Modi magic’ had waned and BJP would not get more than 180 seats.
The PM said opposition has been setting such narratives only to save themselves. “Is there any scientific study to this? In 2013-14, the same set of persons used to talk about the ‘Under-200’ club. You know very well who I am talking about. The narrative continues,” Modi said.
He said, “As far as BJP is concerned, we should not mistrust the intelligence of the common man. I keep telling all political pundits let us trust the common man’s intelligence.”
Modi maintained that there was no reason for people to not support BJP in 2019. “After all what did the common people experience from this government that they will go away from us in 2019. Go back to the newspapers five years ago, see the headlines, see the headlines now. The common man knows it all. I have faith in the common man and the youth of this country,” the PM said.
Asked as if “Modi wave” is over, the PM said he thanks those who say so as they acknowledge that there is a ‘Modi wave’. “... that means people are admitting Modi wave. Check media reports of 2013-14, a set of persons are there who kept saying that ‘there is no Modi wave, Modi can’t do anything’. Those same set of persons ... have a responsibility to keep setting a narrative. I am happy that they accept that there is a word called Modi wave or Modi magic,” he said.
About BJP’s “Congress-mukt” slogan, Modi said, “When I say Congress-mukt, I want to rid the country of the Congress culture of casteism, dynastic politics, nepotism. And I have even gone to say Congress needs to be mukt of this culture.”
“If they do not do this sort of maths and spread such things how will people join their Gathbandhan. They will have to talk big to attract people to themselves,” Modi said in an interview to ANI when asked about the opposition’s claims of “Club 180”- that the ‘Modi magic’ had waned and BJP would not get more than 180 seats.
The PM said opposition has been setting such narratives only to save themselves. “Is there any scientific study to this? In 2013-14, the same set of persons used to talk about the ‘Under-200’ club. You know very well who I am talking about. The narrative continues,” Modi said.
He said, “As far as BJP is concerned, we should not mistrust the intelligence of the common man. I keep telling all political pundits let us trust the common man’s intelligence.”
Modi maintained that there was no reason for people to not support BJP in 2019. “After all what did the common people experience from this government that they will go away from us in 2019. Go back to the newspapers five years ago, see the headlines, see the headlines now. The common man knows it all. I have faith in the common man and the youth of this country,” the PM said.
Asked as if “Modi wave” is over, the PM said he thanks those who say so as they acknowledge that there is a ‘Modi wave’. “... that means people are admitting Modi wave. Check media reports of 2013-14, a set of persons are there who kept saying that ‘there is no Modi wave, Modi can’t do anything’. Those same set of persons ... have a responsibility to keep setting a narrative. I am happy that they accept that there is a word called Modi wave or Modi magic,” he said.
About BJP’s “Congress-mukt” slogan, Modi said, “When I say Congress-mukt, I want to rid the country of the Congress culture of casteism, dynastic politics, nepotism. And I have even gone to say Congress needs to be mukt of this culture.”
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