Congress won’t cross 40-mark in Lok Sabha, wipeout in UP: PM’s big prediction

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asserted the Congress will not win even a single seat in Uttar Pradesh, for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

Speaking exclusively to India Today, of the BJP’s aim in Uttar Pradesh, the Prime Minister said, “We are moving forward with the aim of winning more than 400 seats in the upcoming elections.”

“The Congress won’t even be able to make a mark,” he said.

“My mother had once asked me about the developments in Kashi, to which I told her I had not been able to do anything as the Samajwadi Party was governing the state. But I told her I would work for the city once the BJP wins in the state,” PM said recalling his conversation with his mother, Heeraben Modi.

The Prime Minister also praised the leaders and chief ministers of the BJP, saying, “They all work hard on principles and ideologies, which is a pride for me.”

On Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar’s ‘regional parties coming closer to Congress’ remark, Prime Minister Modi said, “Sharad Pawar’s remarks imply he has accepted that the Congress cannot fight the BJP alone.”

During an interview with The Indian Express, Sharad Pawar had said, “In the next couple of years, several regional parties will associate more closely with the Congress. Or they may look at the option of merging with the Congress if they believe that is the best for their party.”

Also speaking about Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, and if the construction of the same would be valuable for the Lok Sabha elections, PM Modi said, “Ram Mandir has never been a political affair, rather devotional.”

The Prime Minister slammed the Opposition for boycotting the ‘pran pratishtha’ of Lord Ram, and said, “Those who did not come to worship Lord Ram would now be scared.”