Describing the upcoming Lok Sabha polls as an "election of hope", Narendra Modi has said he wants to rid the nation of bad governance, vote bank politics, dynastic rule, corruption and misuse of constitutional institutions which were "nourished" by Congress governments.
The BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate said the "biggest crisis" facing the nation is that people have lost confidence not only in the institution of the Prime Minister but the "very institution of the government" that is crucial to run the government.
He listed his priorities as boosting job creation, skill development, enhancing farm produce, industrial production, healthcare, reservation and empowerment of women and stepping up security measures.
"When I speak about the 'Congress-free India', I mean freedom from the work culture that the Congress has given to this nation during the last 60 years. The culture it has nourished.
"By this, I mean freedom from politics of vote bank, the politics of grabbing power through these means. The country hasn't witnessed such a naked dance of corruption that it has seen during the last 10 years," he told ETV in an interview.
Elaborating on the explanation for the slogan, he said a 'Congress-free India' necessarily means an India "free from bad governance, free from dynastic rule, free from the misuse of constitutional institutions, free from inflation, free from crises of different kinds."
On the upocoming polls, he said, "This election of 2014 does not leave any scope for negativity. This is an 'election of hope'. This is happening for the first time in India.
