More powerful wave this time than in 2014: Modi

KATHUA/ALIGARH: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that there is a “more powerful” wave in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) across the country than compared to the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and after the summer’s elections, it would be “difficult” for the Congress to “survive”.

Modi was in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district to campaign for BJP’S Udhampur Lok Sabha seat candidate and minister of state in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) Jitendra Singh. “I have visited the entire country. Since I came first to Jammu (last time), since then I have visited several states. I have seen a more powerful wave (in favour of the BJP) this time as compared to 2014 (Lok Sabha polls),” he said at an election rally. Attacking the Congress, the PM alleged that the opposition party is raising questions on the government’s actions on national security to appease their vote bank.

Later in the day during a rally in Aligarh, Modi targeted the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP) over their “caste-based politics” and said the 2019 elections would ensure the end of both the parties and their brand of politics. “Voters said in 2014 that they do not want caste-based politics but development. In 2017 also people gave that message,” he said.