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assembly electIons 2022

Modi Leads BJP Wave?

the Prime minister exudes confidence about winning assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh,

Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand, manipur. Will the results on march 10 be a big verdict on the bJP

government’s performance as well as the Prime minister’s appeal?

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rime Minister Narendra Modi
on Wednesday said that wher-
Pever the BJP got the opportu-
nity to work with stability, there has
been an environment of “pro-incum-
bency instead of anti-incumbency”.
In an interview, the Prime Minister
said he was seeing a wave towards the
BJP in the upcoming elections to the
five states. “Wherever the BJP got the
opportunity to work with stability, we
can witness an environment of pro-in-
cumbency instead of anti-incumbency.
The BJP always emerges victorious
with pro-incumbency in elections,” he
said.
The Prime Minister was respond-
ing to a question concerning any an-
ti-incumbency faced by the party. “The
people of all these five states will give
BJP the opportunity to serve them.
The states where we have served,
have seen our work. In earlier times,
while doing political analysis, the word
‘anti-incumbency’ got popularised. I Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during an interview on several issues including Assembly elections 2022 in New Delhi on Wednesday (ANI)
believe that in our country, the times
have changed but the terminology ipation, we ensure the development of tar Pradesh began on Thursday, Na- tar Pradesh showed them the ‘hisab’.
did not change. The reason is that all),” the Prime Minister said. rendra Modi urged all the voters in And then there were these two boys
the previous governments used to get Citing an example of Uttar the state to participate in the “holy and there was buaji also with them
files signed, prioritized (files of) peo- Pradesh, where the BJP emerged victo- festival of democracy” by exercising and still they could not make it,” he
ple they favoured, announce schemes rious consecutively in 2014, 2017, 2019 their franchise. Modi also took a dig at said. “Bua” was an apparent refer-
keeping elections in mind and some- elections- both in assembly polls and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh ence to Bahujan Samajwadi Party
times laid the foundation of projects. Lok Sabha elections, defying the trend Yadav and Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Mayawati by the Prime Minister.
They never worked towards delivering of political parties not coming to pow- chief Jayant Chaudhury who are con- In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the
their promises. er again in the state, the Prime Minis- testing the Uttar Pradesh Assembly BSP and Samajwadi and RLD had
Modi has exuded confidence ter said, “The people of Uttar Pradesh polls in an alliance and said the state formed an alliance against the BJP.
about winning assembly elections in all have already thrown away the old the- had earlier seen the “game of two The Congress with its leader Rahul
five poll-bound states- Uttar Pradesh, ory of ‘ek bar aao, ek bar jao’ (come to boys” and ‘buaji’ too was with them Gandhi and Samajwadi Party had
Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand, Manipur- power once and then go). The BJP has but the people of the state rejected the fought the 2017 assembly polls in the
saying that the Bharatiya Janata Party itself experienced that it was accept- alliance. state in an alliance.
(BJP) will emerge victorious and form ed in 2014, then the people saw our “Ye do ladkon wala khel to The Prime Minister said the vot-
governments with an absolute majori- government’s work and we again got humne pehle bhi dekha tha (This ers will reject the alliance. “Assume
ty. “When we are in power, then with elected in 2017, and similarly in 2019 game of boys we have seen earlier that someone gets to contest elections
great energy and on a large scale we as well. Now in 2022, they will again too. They had so much arrogance in 25 years, the right to vote becomes
work with the mantra ‘Sabka Saath, see our work and again accept us.” that they used the words “Gujarat’s applicable when one turns 18, but if a
Saabka Vikas’ (with everyone’s partic- As the assembly elections in Ut- two donkeys’. And the people of Ut- Continued at next page... >>

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