Helping Modi return for 3rd term your national responsibility: Nadda to Uttarakhand voters

BJP president J P Nadda Thursday asked the people of Uttarakhand to again give all the five Lok Sabha seats in the state to the BJP to help Narendra Modi return as prime minister for a third term and make India the third biggest economy in the world.

''It is your national responsibility,'' Nadda told his first election meeting at Pithoragarh in the state in support of Ajay Tamta, the BJP candidate from the reserved Almora Lok Sabha seat.

Prime Minister Modi made the country the fifth biggest economy in the world despite the challenges of the Covid pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war, he said.

''If you help him get a third term as PM by ensuring the BJP's victory in all the five seats, he will make India the third biggest economy,'' Nadda said.

Later addressing another election meeting at Vikasnagar in Dehradun in support of party candidate from Tehri Lok Sabha seat Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah, the BJP president said Modi has introduced the politics of performance in the country.

''Modi has replaced vote bank politics of caste and appeasement which was going on in the country for decades with the politics of performance and development,'' he said.

''Your vote to Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah will be your stamp of approval on Modi's brand of performance-based politics,'' he said.

Terming the opposition INDIA bloc as an alliance of family-centric parties, he said it is INDI alliance versus the BJP in these elections. Citing examples, he named the Abdullahs and the Muftis of Jammu and Kashmir, Karunanidhi-Stalin family in Tamil Nadu, Pawar and Thakre families in Maharashtra, Mamata-Abhishek family in West Bengal and the Yadav families of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

''They (INDIA block constituents) have nothing to do with you. They only have to protect the corrupt and serve themselves,'' Nadda said in Vikasnagar.

In the Lok Sabha elections, the people have to choose between the scammers and those who understood their pain and took major steps towards development, empowering the poor and the women, he said.

''Women in the hills earlier had to go to the forest each morning to collect firewood and walk miles to fetch water. Modi rid them of the daily grind through schemes like Ujjwala and Har Ghar Nal se Jal,'' he said.

Besides, 11 crore 'izzat ghars' (toilets) were made which eased the lives of the people, especially the women, he added.

The BJP chief also spoke of the Ayushman scheme under which the people can avail of free medical treatment up to Rs 5 lakh in case of major illnesses, and the PM Awas Yojana under which four crore pucca houses have been built for the poor in the country.

One lakh such houses have been built in Uttarakhand of which 11,000 are located in Pithoragarh alone, he said.

Under Prime Minister Modi's leadership, India has seen unprecedented growth in various sectors including mobile phone manufacturing, automobile and steel industries, and road, rail and air connectivity infrastructure, he said.

Naming the various scams during the Congress-led UPA, he spoke of the Bofors, AgustaWestland, coal block allocation, Commonwealth and submarine cases.

Nadda said the Congress had only cheated the servicemen for decades over 'one rank one pension', a demand fulfilled only after Modi became the prime minister.

The BJP chief targeted the Congress for raising doubts over the surgical and Balakot air strikes which he described as the results of Modi's bold and courageous leadership.

Rapid development is possible only under Modi. Press the lotus button on April 19 to give him another term as the prime minister so that he steers India to being the third largest economy in the world.

Nadda is on a two-day visit to the state during which he will hold a roadshow in Haridwar on Friday.

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