BJP workers killed in Bengal for their ideology, says Modi

Chemistry has beaten arithmetic in the recent Parliamentary election, said Prime-Minister designate Narendra Modi, who is going to assume the charge as the PM for second time on May 30.

“It was not for the first time when this political change was seen in Indian politics when the chemistry of social strength was clearly visible but shockingly, the political pundits were not ready to change their established perception,” he said.

Modi was addressing party workers in thanksgiving function at Deen Dayal Updhyay Haskala Sankul (Trade Facilitation Centre) at Bada Lalpur here on Monday.

“We had made a hat-trick of victories performing remarkably well in 2014, 2017 and 2019 but, unfortunately, the political pundits were not ready to change their established perception of the last 70 years and sometimes they used logical and illogical analysis to prove their point,” Modi added.

Earlier, Modi offered prayer at Kashi Vishwanath temple, seeking the blessings of the Almighty again as he did five years ago before assuming the charge as PM.

Modi appealed to the party workers to overlook established negativity in politics and continue to adopt positivity. “Our success is the result of our perfect synergy between Government policies and organisational politics,” he said, asking the party workers to continue with the same so that the people of the country can get optimum benefits of Government schemes.

“Work and workers create a wonder,” said Modi, adding that “with our work we succeeded in winning the faith of the people. We have not done any favour to them but it was their rights.”

Modi went on to highlight the violence let loose against party workers in several States, and said, “Undoubtedly, in achieving the same, our party workers faced crises. Several of our workers sacrificed their lives in Kerala, Kashmir, West Bengal and Tripura and our workers are still being beaten up in West Bengal, but shockingly a section of the national media had seen a selective humanism behind such sacrifices of our party workers.”

“We’d also faced political untouchability,” he said, citing the example of Gujarat when a section of film industry had raised strong voices when his Government had invited a senior star (Amitabh Bachchan) for tourism promotion.

In his marathon address, Modi highlighted how for vote-bank politics the Opposition parties never showed courage to look into the pains of the common people.

“We have shown courage without worrying for our votes because. We’re working on the principles of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikash’ and in the coming months we would ask the administration to provide houses to the people in the village from a corner one by one irrespective of caste and religion and mercy of gram pradhan,” he said.

“We’ve policies of respecting our rich tradition and culture along with a vision to address the current situation needs and modernization,” he said.

 He also attacked on all those intellectuals who termed the BJP as a party of only Hindi heartland saying “our voting percentage has increased across the nation including Goa in the west, north eastern States in the east, Karnataka in the south and Ladakh in the north.”

He appealed to the party workers to work with the spirit of freedom struggle and do their duty that by 2022 there would not be any section of the society who can remain   aloof from the process of development. “With such policies we had succeeded in improving our economic strength in the world as when we came to power in 2014 we were at ninth most developed economy in the work but today we are at sixth place and knocking the doors to reach fifth place soon,” he said. The function was also addressed by national BJP president Amit Shah, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and State party chief Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey and it was conducted by regional BJP president (Kashi Pranth) Mahesh Chandra Srivastava.

 Earlier, when Modi landed at Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport, Babatpur, along with Shah, he was welcomed by Governor Ram Naik, chief minister Yogi Adityanath and others. Later, Modi went to the Police Lines by helicopter and then reached Kashi Vishwanath temple. Throughout the route, he was warmly welcomed by thousands of people waiting for him since morning, After reaching Kashi Vishwnaath temple, Modi offered Rudrabhishek amidst the chanting of mantras in traditional religious rituals.

Since he was elected an MP for first time from Varanasi parliamentary seat in 2014, it was his fourth visit to the temple and 20th to the city.