New Delhi: Singing the development mantra in his last rally ahead of Delhi assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today tried to woo voters by highlighting central welfare schemes and trashed the opinion polls which gave an edge to AAP, saying BJP will get majority.
“Do not listen to lies... The BJP will get full majority,” he said in his last election rally in Ambedkar Nagar.
He said the rally turnout shows that the wind is blowing in favour of BJP.
“In Varanasi, they said that Modi will be defeated, that too by 3 lakh votes. But I won”, he said.
“I am a Dilliwallah now, I live here,” the PM said, adding that he was therefore “equally responsible” for its development.
Modi pitched for the necessity of the BJP to come to power. He said, “For a strong nation it was necessary to have a strong BJP government and appealed to voters not to give an “unstable” government to Delhi.”
The bulk of his criticism was directed at Kejriwal and AAP, but he also made attacks on the Congress.
“Someone called me and asked me the other day, have you also donated money? When I inquired, I came to know that even Mahatma Gandhi has made a donation, also Obama, and me,” he said. “What sort of people are these?”
“My politics have only one style, only one mantra and only one focus and that is development. And it means that there should be change in the lives of the poor people. Their children should get education, their parents should get medicine. And there should be concrete house in place of jhuggis,” he said.
He also talked about various welfare schemes undertaken by his government to help the poor and said his politics was all about development without which no state can progress.
He referred to ‘Jandhan' and direct benefit transfer for gas cylinder subsidy as pro-poor measures taken by his government.
In an apparent attack on Congress, he said his was neither a “ghotala sarkar (government of scam)” nor was a government run with the help of “ghotalebaaz (scamsters)”.
Modi also cautioned Delhiites against instability in the city, saying it can harm the national capital more than any other state and sought a majority for BJP to provide a stable government.
He urged the electorate to vote in large numbers to ensure that polling percentage in Delhi surpasses the high turnouts recorded in recent Assembly elections in Haryana, Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir.
The size of crowd he had witnessed in the Assembly election campaign was more than what he saw during the Lok Sabha elections, he claimed.
He urged people to vote in the BJP with full majority in Delhi.
Taking a dig at the opposition parties, he said his opponents are troubled by him, because “they are not able to digest how Modi, a poor man, has come to be PM”.
