Will Return In 2019 With Bigger Numbers: PM Modi
AND HE SCOFFS AT OPPOSITION PARTIES COALITION PLAN AS FAILED IDEA
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed confidence that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would win the Lok Sabha election next year by a bigger margin than in 2014, and dismissed “Mahagathbandhan” as a failed idea which cannot succeed because people want a strong and decisive government at Centre that can deliver results.
In an email interview with the
Times of India, the PM also strongly condemned mob lynchings as a crime irrespective of motives, vowed to protect honest business and punish the corrupt and asserted that his government would keep its promise to complete the process of updating the National Register of Citizens in Assam.
“A non-ideological alliance of desperate and disparate groups is not a ‘Mahagathbandhan’ but political adventurism,” Mr Modi said about the proposed grand alliance of opposition parties.
Mr Modi said his platform for the next national election would be “development, fast development and development for all”.
“We will definitely get more seats than we got the last time and I am confident that we will break all records of seats won by NDA in the past.”
He took on Congress over the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, saying its vote-bank politics prevented it from implementing accords the party itself concluded in 1972 and 1982 when it was in office.
“Congress is guilty of criminal negligence on this count,” he said. On the concerns being raised over incidents of mob violence, including cow vigilantism, he underlined that these incident need to be condemned in the strongest voice.
“My government is fully committed to upholding the rule of law and protecting the life and liberty of every citizen.
“No person can, under any circumstances, take the law into his or her hand and commit violence,” he said.