‘Tripura shows people have rejected politics of hatred’
: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday expressed happiness with the results of the assembly elections in Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland, calling them a decisive vote for unity.
“I’m not looking at the results in the north-east as the victory or loss of any political party. The whole nation was celebrating the results and this rarely happens,” he said while addressing a convention in Karnataka via video conference.
The convention titled “Youth Power: A Vision for New India” was held at Tumakuru, about 70 km from Bengaluru, as a part of the silver jubilee celebration of the Ramakrishna Vivekananda Ashrama.
“The result in Tripura has shown that by voting for the BJP, people have discarded the politics of hatred. Radicalisation can only be answered with integration. And we are working towards ensuring that no part of the country considers itself outside the mainstream,” said Modi.
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Accusing previous governments of spreading a lie that tribal areas were prone to leftwing extremism, Modi said this was done “by those who want to break the country to ensure a fertile ground for themselves”.
He said there was a sense of hurt in people of north-eastern states because they felt alienated from the rest of the country. “In the past four years, our government has attempted to address this hurt and this is why the results in the Adivasi areas of Tripura have given me immense happiness.”
The PM urged youngsters to follow the teachings of Swami Vivekananda. Modi said many a time he had seen confusion among the youth. “If you go to a platform and see many trains there, and if you don’t know which one you want to get on, then neither can you reach the destination nor decide on the route to it,” he said.