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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) winning the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, and Manipur is the result of “pro-poor and pro-active governance”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday.
Despite revoking the farm law, Modi and the BJP did not impress voters in Punjab voters, where Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) scored a thumping victory. AAP is the first regional party that will form a government in
another state, apart from New Delhi.
Not to be deterred by the Punjab defeat, PM Modi took a jibe at poll pundits who had doubted the BJP’s staying power. “2022’s results have paved the way for 2024 for the BJP,” he remarked.
“There was a time when people needed to run from pillar to post for basic amenities like gas, power and water. The common man was denied his entitlement. Now, in the BJP regime, we have understood and delivered this to the common man,” Modi said as he was greeted by hundreds of cheering BJP workers at the party headquarters in Delhi.
Modi emphasized that his government has “strengthened the governance delivery system” and also brought in “transparency” in the process. He also referred to his 20-plus years in Gujarat politics as “service” for the people of
Gujarat.
Modi also thanked women voters, who, he claimed, “played a major role in the BJP’s landslide victories.”.
Pointing out that the people of Uttar Pradesh were often looked at only through the lens of caste, he said that whether in 2014, 2017 or, Uttar Pradesh “chooses politics of development”.
On the Congress’s loss, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor tweeted: ‘All of us who believe in @INCIndia are hurting from the results of the recent assembly elections. It is time to reaffirm the idea of India that the Congress has stood for and the positive agenda it offers the nation – and to reform our organizational leadership in a manner that will reignite those ideas and inspire the people. One thing is clear – Change is unavoidable if we need to succeed.”
