Tribune News Service
New Delhi, October 24
Terming the Assembly poll results in Haryana and Maharashtra as an “unprecedented victory” for the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today virtually endorsed that incumbent Manohar Lal Khattar and Devendra Fadnavis in their respective states will have a re-run for the next five years.
Addressing party workers here at the BJP headquarters, Modi said the CMs were “first-timers” in the government, as they did not have any experience in governance before getting the chance to run the state in 2014. “But with their dedication and hard work, they could win hearts of people for a repeat mandate. I wish them all the best for their second stint.”
On the Haryana results, the PM said as he knew people in the state seldom repeat a government, but this time around the BJP could emerge the largest party in the Assembly, which is “no mean achievement” particularly when the Chief Minister and his team worked with a slender majority of only two seats. “This is no mean achievement, as in the last Assembly elections the party could get 33 per cent of votes, but this time it has increased to 36 percent,” he said.
Showing no disappointment for the BJP not going past the half-way mark in Haryana, Modi recalled that the party played a distant second fiddle in the state politics until 2014. “The BJP used to be offered seats in single digits for which the party didn’t even have any choice. We used to feel happy if the party could win seats in double digits. In that context, the BJP emerging the single largest party is laudable,” Modi said.
The PM also stressed Fadnavis proved himself by becoming the first Chief Minister in past 50 years to have completed the full five-year term. “There were governments with even two-third majority, yet there were no Chief Ministers in 50 years who could complete the full five-year term,” he said.
Earlier, the BJP chief Amit Shah stressed both Maharashtra and Haryana weren’t traditional strongholds of the party. “This is the first victory in the two states in Modi 2.0. The vote share of the BJP in Haryana has gone up by 3 per cent from the 2014 state elections,” said Shah, while asserting that the party would deliver good governance in the state for the next five years.
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