‘Oppn polarised with Modi-hatao plank, pro-Modi camp winning’

Vibha Sharma
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 17

At the end of a strenuous election campaign spreading over weeks, BJP president Amit Shah today expressed confidence at his party winning “more than 300 Lok Sabha seats independently”.

Speaking exclusively to The Tribune, Shah said the people of India “wanted to repeat the Modi experiment”.

Shah said the popularity of PM Narendra Modi, along with the strength of the organisation, gave him confidence that the BJP-led NDA was forming the next government.

On the last day of a very acrimonious campaign, Shah agreed that the 2019 elections had become polarised at the centre of which was PM Modi. However, for this he held the Opposition responsible. Shah said the “Opposition did not contest on issues like ‘garibi hatao, corruption hatao, gandagi hatao, asuraksha hatao’; instead, they made ‘Modi hatao’ their main motive, the prime agenda”.

“Their common cause was ‘Modi hatao’, so naturally the poll became polarised into pro-Modi and anti-Modi camps. But it’s the pro-Modi camp which is bigger and winning.”