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Modi is essentially warning those who have not worked in their constituencies

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With Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reported comment in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentary party “Na baithunga, na baithne dunga (I will not tolerate idleness)”, the countdown would appear to have begun for the 2019 general election that could see a large number of members of Parliament (MP) being replaced. Modi is essentially warning those who have not worked in their constituencies or have become inaccessible. Informal party reviews — and the reported comment of Manohar Parrikar after Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar, too, lost his seat — suggest that while the BJP managed to form the government in that

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