Responsibility to take everyone along: Modi

"People voted from their heart and the government belongs to the people and not to a particular family or special group of people," India’s Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi said on Friday in his maiden address to a gathering in Vadodara. 

 

“People wanted me to say something, but my wish was if I had to say something I would say it in Vadodara,” he told a cheering crowd in Gujarat city 139 km from state capital Gandhinagar.

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“How do you feel, tell me,” he posed to the crowd before engaging them in his by now known style of oratory. He used the ‘Ache din ane wale hain’ (Good days are coming) catchphrase to great effect in his first address after the sweeping win.

 

Modi, who won by more than 5,70,000 votes from Vadodara, apart from winning Varanasi, said, “I bow down before the people of Vadodara. After filing my nomination papers from here, I could not give this constituency even 50 minutes. But paanch lakh sattar hazaar (5.7 lakh)!”

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He added, “In Vadodara, every voter worked as Narendra Modi.” 

 

The BJP leader went on to add that this is the first time a nationalist party opposed to the Congress has been successful in getting a clear mandate from the people.

 

He said: "Ever since Independence, the Congress party has been in power most of the time. Whenever a non-Congress government has been in power, it has been a coalition. This is the first time a single party has received a 'pure' majority on its own." 

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"It is my responsibility to take all of you together to run the nation. To run the government is easier. I will move ahead based on trust. 'With all and development for all' will be my government's motto and not an empty slogan," he added.

 

He said that there are no enemies in a democracy or in politics. That is the strength of a democracy. I will develop Vadodara and return your love to you in the form of immense progress.

 

The BJP was heading for a simple majority on its own in the Lok Sabha, according to vote counts on Friday.