The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday celebrated its 42nd foundation day. The BJP was founded on April 6, 1980, by former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani. On this occasion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the BJP workers in New Delhi. In his speech, the prime minister said that the people of India trust the BJP and it has been proved after the party retained power in four states that went to assembly polls recently. He also slammed the Opposition parties for blatantly following the evils of "dynastic politics" and "vote-bank politics". Here're the top 10 quotes of PM Modi from his speech delivered today:
Top 10 quotes of PM Modi from his speech
1. The Prime Minister opened his address by saying that “today is the fifth day of Navratri, we worship Maa Skandamata today. We have seen her seated on a Lotus throne, while holding a Lotus flower in both hands. I wish that her blessings continue to be bestowed upon every citizen and worker of the BJP”.
2. In his address, PM Modi took a jibe at the opposition over dynastic politics. He said, we work in the interest of the nation whereas some political parties at central and regional level work in the interest of their families. He said two kinds of Politics are going in the country, ‘One for parivar bhakti and the other for rashtra bhakti’.
3. Modi said that with ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’ people trust us and we are working 24*7 for the development of our country.
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4. PM Modi said that this year the foundation day is even more special because of three reasons- one because this year we are celebrating 75 years of India’s independence; secondly because the world order is changing at a very fast pace, this creates new opportunities for our country continuously and third, few weeks ago the double engine government of BJP has returned to power in four states.
5. PM Modi also said, After three decades a party has reached the landmark of 100 members in Rajya Sabha.
6. On vote Bank Politics, PM Modi said that discrimination and corruption were the side effects of vote bank politics that previous governments followed. He added that BJP has challenged vote bank politics and also succeeded in letting people understand the harm of vote bank politics.
7. PM Modi also said that today India stands firm for its interests without any fear and pressure. Today the whole world is divided in two rival factions where India is being viewed as a nation that can strongly speak about humanity.
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8. PM also added that there was a time when people had accepted that be it any government, nothing good will be done in the country. But today, every citizen of the country is proudly saying that the nation is changing and going ahead smoothly.
9. PM Modi, in his address talked about the country’s progress and said that India has achieved the target of exporting products worth $400 billion and that too in the time of Corona.
10. He further said that to work for the upliftment of the poor, backward, downtrodden and women have been the core values of the BJP.
