PM MODI’S GLOBAL REACH BOOSTED BJP ELECTORALLY
The poll results are also an approval of PM Modi’s comments that he made during one of his rallies when he attributed the success of Operation Ganga to the rising power of India in the global arena.
The four-out-of-five electoral outcome for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) can be attributed to an extent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s firm, determined and extraordinary global reach leading to “India’s substantial rise” on the world platform. The saffron surge in most of the states that went to polls recently suggests that PM Modi’s “masterstrokes” on foreign policy front struck the right chord with the voters.
While addressing party workers after the election victory at BJP headquarters in New Delhi on Thursday, what PM Modi said was, in fact, confirmation of how the voters put the stamp of approval on the diplomatic positions that his government has taken from time to time. Referring to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, PM Modi said on
Thursday, “India’s several needs are connected to the involved countries but it is on the side of peace and hopes that all problems get resolved through dialogue.” He further said, “In this uncertain environment of upheaval, the people of India, particularly states like Uttar Pradesh have shown their far-sightedness.” “The way the voters have given their mandate for stable governments in these polls signifies that democracy runs in the veins of Indians,” he added.
PM Modi’s message was loud and clear to the global community as well as to politicians in India who were questioning his government’s stand on the Ukraine conflict. The massive mandate to the BJP in UP and other states is the response of the people to those questioning India’s Ukraine stand. The poll results are also an approval of PM Modi’s comments that he made during one of his rallies when he attributed the success of Operation Ganga—ukraine evacuation mission—to the rising power of India in the global arena. What created a positive impact of PM Modi’s diplomacy among the people of poll-bound states was the Ukrainian President and other world leaders appealing to him to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the war. That Putin kept briefing PM Modi on the conflict situation “reinforced the