Must learn from mistakes of parties in terminal decline: PM Modi

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday took a veiled dig at the Congress, saying that parties which have ruled India for long are now in "terminal decline".
Addressing the BJP national executive meeting in Hyderabad, PM Modi said that the country was fed up with dynastic politics and dynastic political parties and added that it would be difficult for such parties to survive long.
Without naming anyone, the Prime Minister said the parties which ruled India for long are in terminal decline now.
"We should not mock them but learn from their mistakes," he told the BJP workers.
At a press conference, senior party leader Ravi Shankar Prasad referred to several other points raised by the Prime Minister in his speech.
Giving a clarion call to BJP workers to make India "shreshtha" (great), Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Sunday that the party's goal should be "fulfilment of all" as against the opposition's politics of appeasement.
He also asked them to undertake a 'Sneh Yatra' and reach out to all sections of society.
Referring to Hyderabad as "Bhagyanagar", Modi said Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel laid the foundation of "Ek Bharat" (United India) by integrating the region into the Union and it is the BJP's historical obligation to build 'Shreshtha Bharat'.
(With inputs from PTI)