Home Minister Amit Shah asserted on Thursday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's retaining power for a third term in 2024 is a certainty, expressing confidenc🤪e the ruling BJP will achieve a bigger victory i🐈n the Lok Sabha polls than 2019.
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Home Minister Amit Shah asserted on Thursday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's retaining power for a third term in 2024 is a certainty, expressing confidenc🤪e the ruling BJP will achieve a bigger victory i🐈n the Lok Sabha polls than 2019.
In an interview to news channel 'Aaj Tak', Shah said the party has chosen its "good workers" as chief ministers 🥃in three states and that its ordinary workers are its "tallest" members, replying to a question about the BJP preferring new faces to more known leaders, including former chief ministers, in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.
All three leaders were ordinary workers once who were given adeqꦆuate opportunities by the party, he said in reference to former Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan chief ministers Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Raman Singh and Vasundhra Raje respectively. To a question about Modi's consistently high approval ratings over the years, Shah said people have developed devotion to the prime minister as they believe it is he who can make the country great and has the roadmap for it.
Mཧodi has done nothing for himself, Shah said, adding that he will go a step further to state that the prime minister did nothing for his party as whatever he (Modi) did was for the country and its poor. When some hard decisions were taken, even BJP workers said it would hurt their votes but Modi took those stringent measures keeping in mind the interests of people, the home minister said. That is why India is doing well on all fronts, he said.
The BJP is backed by its performance, its "sacred" aims and people's agenda besides the fact that it has a leader mat💟chless not only in India but in the world, Shah said, expressiღng confidence about its prospects. He also took a swipe at the opposition INDIA bloc, wondering where it exists and noting the digs of its constituents on one another during the recent assembly polls.
In ꦐhis remarks, Shah underlined the ruling party's commitment to the Uniform Civil Code and implementing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. He said the Congress discarded the UCC, which was mentioned as one of the directive principles in the Constitution, due to its vote bank politics and the BJP is form on its commitment to it. The biggest sign of a secular government is that there should be same law for everyone, he said.
Shah also attacked the opposition for allegedly creating "north-south" divide following the assembly polls in which the BJP swept the elections in three Hindi-speaking states while the Congress came to power in the so♐uthern state of Telangana. Noting that the BJP has been strong in Karnataka, he said the party will get its highest tally in Telangana, wheꦇre it has four Lok Sabha MPs currently, and improve on its performance in Kerala and Tamil Nadu in 2024.
He said, "I condemn people who use e𓄧lections as a means ✨to divide the northern and southern parts of India. Those who propagate the north-south narrative are the ones seeking to divide India rather than unite it. I don't approve of such political gimmicks."