Election results 2022: PM Modi sees BJP win as indicator of 2024 outcome

Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised the government's economic measures and social welfare steps had put India on track in these circumstances

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday exuded confidence that the UP Assembly verdict this time was an indication of what will happen in the general elections, which are more than two years away, in the same way the state poll results five years ago indicated the shape of the Lok Sabha polls of 2019.

He also spoke of a possible rise in prices of petrol, diesel, edible oils, fertilisers, coal, and gas due to the Russia-Ukraine war.

Addressing BJP workers at the party’s headquarters here after the Assembly elections showed that it came back to power in four states, Modi said: “Some