Huge crowds a pointer to direction the wind is blowing: Modi


New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS): Addressing his last election rally in Delhi ahead of Saturday's assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Wednesday the huge turnout was a clear indication of "the direction the wind is blowing" and appealed to voters to bring a stable BJP government in Delhi.

He also took a dig at surveys ahead of the Feb 7 polls that predicted the AAP having an advantage.

Addressing an election meeting in south Delhi's Ambedkar Nagar, Modi said that for a strong nation it was necessary to have a strong BJP government and appealed to voters not to give an "unstable" government to Delhi.

"I am seeing the huge crowd here. It is much bigger than when I would address rallies ahead of the general elections. It gives an indication of the direction the wind is blowing," he said.

Modi said his aim was to bring development to the country, and bring change to the lives of the poor in Delhi.

He said the "entire world now considers India as an important force, and it is happening because of your votes that brought the BJP with majority to the Centre".

He urged people to vote in the BJP with full majority in Delhi.

"Don't bring in an unstable government. It is the country's capital. Its fate should not be left hanging. Please vote for progress, vote for BJP," he said.

Taking a dig at the opposition parties, he said his opponents are troubled by him, because "they are not able to digest how Modi, a poor man, has come to be PM".

He said that in the last elections, surveys said he would lose by three lakh votes in Varanasi, but he won.

He said under the leadership of the Kiran Bedi, who has been named the Bharatiya Janata Party's chief ministerial candidate, the party will begin development of Delhi.

"We are not going to stop for a single moment because, we have to clear up the mess of the last 16 years in the next five years," Modi said.

He said the goal of his politics is development. "Development to bring a change in the lives of the poor," Modi said, and said the BJP would ensure education for the children of the poor, medical care for the aged and also "pucca" houses in the place of shanties with electricity, water and toilets.

Modi also defended the party over the "typographical error" of describing northeastern people as "immigrants" in the party vision document and decried attempts to rake up the issue for political mileage.

"Attempts are being made to provoke people from northeast... a mistake was made and the party accepted it," Modi said at the rally.

"No one should play with the unity of the country for political benefits," the prime minister said.

Modi said he has visited the northeastern states many times and the BJP government would develop the region "more than what has happened in the past 60 years".

  

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