No space for corruption, lies in politics: PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday termed the BJP’s win in the Delhi Assembly elections historic and asserted that the mandate had made it clear that there was no space for “corruption and lies” in politics.

The BJP won 48 of the 70 seats, ending its 27-year zinx in Delhi, while AAP won the remaining 22 seats. The Congress repeated its dismal performance of the last elections by drawing a blank.

Launching a scathing attack on both INDIA bloc members — AAP and the Congress — the PM said the country needed a serious political transformation and not politics of “dhoort-ta (deceit) and moorkhta (foolishness)”, adding that the people of Delhi had “short-circuited the politics of shortcuts”.

“People of Delhi today have enthusiasm and satisfaction. There is relief in liberating Delhi from ‘AAP-da’. I thank all Delhiites for entrusting their faith in ‘Modi ki guarantee’,” the Prime Minister said while addressing party workers at the BJP headquarters.

He said Delhiites were celebrating the BJP’s victory and respite from ‘AAP-da’, a term he used throughout the campaign to criticise the AAP rule.

“Now, Delhi’s double-engine government will ensure development at double speed. It is a historic win and not a usual victory as the people of Delhi have shown the door to ‘AAP-da’. Delhi has become Aap-da-mukt,” Modi said.

Hitting out at both AAP and the Congress, the PM said the grand old party was not as it used to be post-Independence as it was indulging in the “politics of urban Naxals”.

“These people are giving themselves the gold medal in defeat. The truth is that the country is not willing to trust the Congress. I had said the last time that the Congress has become a parasitic party. It drowns and takes down its allies with it,” he said.

Attacking the Congress, Modi said, “After 2014, party leaders tried to become Hindu by visiting temples, wearing malas. They thought that they would be able to dent the BJP’s vote bank. You would have seen that they have now stopped that as they realised that it is BJP’s domain. So, now they have their eyes on these regional parties, to feed off them. Members of the INDI Alliance have started to realise that the Congress is trying to take back the vote bank these parties had won.”

“The country needs a serious political transformation, ‘viksit Bharat’ needs new energy, 21st century politics needs new ideas,” he said urging the youth to enter politics.