Janjivan Bureau / New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, attending his first press conference in five years on Friday, said for the first time, a government that enjoyed a five-year term will return with full majority after the election.
“It has not happened often in our country that a government with full majority returns once again with a majority,” said PM Modi at a press conference in the BJP headquarters in Delhi, his first since taking power at the centre in 2014.
PM Modi has been repeatedly criticised by Congress president Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders for not addressing a single press conference since he took the top job.
But during his campaign for this national election, the Prime Minister gave a series of interviews.
Referring to his 2014 victory, he said “On May 16 the results came out. And in May 17 there was a big casualty. Those who were power-hungry and those into betting suffered a biggest loss.”
On the current campaign, he said his planning was “very detailed.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday said he will never forgive BJP candidate Pragya Singh Thakur for insulting Mahatma Gandhi by calling his assassin Nathuram Godse a true patriot.
Modi told a TV channel during his last rally here ahead of the last phase of voting in the Lok Sabha polls, Modi also said her comments were detrimental to society.
“The remarks made about Gandhiji or Nathuram Godse are very bad and very wrong for society,” he said. “She has sought an apology but I would never be able to forgive her fully,” he added.
After he ended his remarks, BJP president Amit Shah took questions from the media.
The PM, to the very first question addressed to him, said: “I am a disciplined soldier, party president is everything for me.”
Amit Shah, to another question, said, “I have answered your question. It is not necessary for the PM to answer every question.”
Earlier Friday, BJP president Amit Shah said remarks on Mahatma Gandhis assassin by three BJP leaders Thakur, Union Minister Anantkumar Hegde and Karnataka MP Nalin Kumar Kateel were not in line with the partys ideology.
Shah had said the partys disciplinary committee has sought an explanation from them in 10 days.
During a roadshow in Madhya Pradeshs Agar town, Thakur had said, Nathuram Godseji deshbhakt the, hai, aur rahenge unko aatankwadi kahne wale log swayam ki gireban me jhaank kar dekhe chunav mein aise logon ko jawab de diya jayega (Nathuram Godse was a patriot, is a patriot, and will remain a patriot those who call him a terrorist should look within they will get a reply in this election).
She was responding to a comment made by actor-turned- politician Kaman Haasan, who said Godse was the first Hindu terrorist in independent India.
The Malegaon blast accused later apologised for her statement.
