PRIME Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Thursday the results of two State Assembly elections and several by-polls highlight people’s support to the BJP’s vision and commitment to development rising above social “faultlines”, which he said were “being exploited” by rival parties for political gains.

India’s future can be made bright not by raising faultlines but by erasing them, he said in his address to BJP workers at the party’s Headquarters.” “While the people of Gujarat have “broken records in breaking new records”, the BJP fell behind the Congress by less than one per cent votes in Himachal Pradesh, he noted and said his party’s win in Kurhani bypoll in Bihar against the combined might of the grand alliance of the RJD-JD(U)-Congress is an indication of the times to come in the State.” In an apparent attack on the AAP, Modi invoked the Hindi idiom “Aamdani athanni kharcha rupaiya” and said people have realised that short-term politics will inflict a big harm on the country. What will be the situation if such a policy is followed can be seen in our neighbourhood, he said in reference to financial hardships in countries like Sri Lanka and Pakistan. The support to the BJP shows people’s rising anger against dynasty rule and corruption, he said, noting that the party also won the prestigious Rampur by-poll in Uttar Pradesh.