NDA is strongest alliance Govt: Modi
| Date :08-Jun-2024 |
NEW DELHI,
PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said he would strive to ensure unanimity in running the next Government and asserted that the NDA is not a combine of some parties to get power but an organic alliance committed to the principle of ‘nation first’. Chosen by the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance as its leader to become Prime Minister for the third time, Modi said the ruling combine is committed to the constitutional principle of “sarva panth sambhava (interfaith harmony)” and mutual trust was at the core of this bloc. “If we look at numbers, then this is the strongest coalition Government in the history of coalitions,” he said, asserting that the NDA has been the most successful pre-poll alliance since its existence for nearly 30 years, out of which it has served out three full terms and is set to start the fourth. “We have never lost. Our conduct following June 4 shows that we know how to digest victory,” the Prime Minister said at the meeting of the NDA Parliamentary Party. “For me the NDA stands for New India, Developed India, Aspirational India,” he said,
lauding the leading architects of the alliance, including Atal Behari Vajpayee, George Fernandes, Bal Thackeray, Sharad Yadav and Parkash Singh Badal. Modi said he has been missing quality debates and participation in Parliament for 10 years and expressed hope that it may happen this time. He said he hopes Opposition leaders will be guided by national interest. “They may be in opposition to us but not to the nation. I hope they will arrive in Parliament with the sentiment of national interest,” Modi said. “There were efforts to not acknowledge this very victory, to cast a ‘shadow of defeat’ on this victory. But all such efforts remained fruitless... Such things ‘die very young’, and it happened,” Modi said.
NDA leaders, including N Chandrababu Naidu (TDP), Nitish Kumar (JDU), Eknath Shinde (Shiv Sena), Chirag Paswan (LJP-RV), H D Kumaraswamy (JDS), Ajit Pawar (NCP), Anupriya Patel (Apna Dal-S), Pawan Kalyan (Jana Sena), attended the meeting along with newly elected Lok Sabha members from the ruling alliance. With Parliament often witnessing frequent disruptions in the past due to deep acrimony between the ruling coalition and opposition parties, Modi struck a conciliatory note. Having a “bahumat (majority)” is necessary to form government but “sarvmat (consensus or unanimity)” is much needed for running the country, he said. “I want to assure people of the country that you have given us the good fortune to run the government by handing us a majority, and it has then become our responsibility that we continuously strive to ensure unanimity in taking the country forward,” Modi said.