UP, U’khand, Goa, Manipur won, PM Modi now shifts focus to Gujarat, holds roadshow in Ahmedabad

A day after scoring victories in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has now shifted focus to poll-bound Gujarat and held a huge roadshow in Ahmedabad on Friday (March 11, 2022).

Prime Minister Modi is on a two-day visit to Gujarat, his home state, and held the roadshow from the Ahmedabad airport to the Gujarat BJP headquarters.

At around 4 PM, Prime Minister will also participate in Gujarat Panchayat Mahasammelan and address the gathering.

On Saturday, Prime Minister Modi will dedicate the building of Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU) to the nation at 11 AM. He will also deliver the first Convocation address of the RRU as the Chief Guest and around 6:30 PM, he will declare open the 11th Khel Mahakumbh and deliver an address on the occasion.

He will also hold meetings with party leaders and later address over one lakh village, taluka and district panchayat members in Ahmedabad.

It is notable that the term of the Gujarat assembly ends on January 8 next year, and the state is expected to go to the polls this December.

Besides Gujarat, elections are also due in Himachal Pradesh. The Congress had sprung a surprise by defeating the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) in three assembly bypolls in Himachal Pradesh in October last year. The BJP had also lost the bye-election to the Mandi Lok Sabha seat in the hill-state.

Elections are also due in Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura early next year where the BJP or its alliance partners are in power.

Earlier on Thursday, BJP became the only party in over 30 years to get re-elected for a second term in Uttar Pradesh and also retained Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa. The saffron party increased its vote share in almost all the states that went to polls including a marginal rise in Punjab.

He hailed the victories as an ’emphatic endorsement of BJP’s pro-poor and proactive governance’ and a ‘vote for political stability’.

Here are key highlights of PM Modi’s victory speech:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that such a grand and decisive victory for the party is a guarantee for India’s bright future.

PM Modi asserted that the BJP’s emphatic win in four state polls underscores people’s stamp of strong approval for its government’s pro-poor and pro-active governance.

“In all the five states that went to the polls, our Party Karyakartas worked tirelessly among the people. They spoke about our good governance agenda and highlighted our pro-people efforts,” he said.

The Prime Minister also referred to the next Lok Sabha polls, scheduled for 2024, and said that he hopes that political pundits will note that his party’s win in the four states has also made clear the verdict for the next general election as they had linked its win in 2019 to its sweep of the Uttar Pradesh elections in 2017.