New Delhi: The BJP will set the agenda for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, emerge victorious and the people will get a “Congress-free India”, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday.
In an interview to TV news channel Times Now, Modi expressed confidence about his Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) victory in the next Lok Sabha polls, but remained tight-lipped over his own candidature for the prime minister’s post.
“In 2014, the BJP will set the agenda for polls, people of the country will make BJP victorious, and the way people of Gujarat have formed a Congress-free Gujarat, people of the country will have a Congress-free India,” he said.
Modi also termed dynastic politics a bad trend. “Dynastic politics should not be encouraged in democracy. It does not mean two people of one family cannot be in politics, but unfortunately, the country presently is in the clutches of dynastic rule,” he said.
Modi sought to clarify his remarks at a book release function at Gandhinagar on April 4 which were seen as a clear indication of his prime ministerial ambitions.
Modi had said at the function that he was being told that he had repaid his debt to Gujarat and had to pay his debt to the country.
He had said every citizen owes a debt to “Mother India”.
“If someone heard my lecture, the person who spoke before me said ‘you have fulfilled the debt of Gujarat. Now fulfill your debt to the country’. I said it is not my debt alone and every citizen has to fulfill the country’s debt,” Modi told the news channel.
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