BJP's vote share in South will increase in 2024 Lok Sabha polls: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a scathing critique of governments in south India on Friday while expressing confidence that the BJPs vote share in the south would increase in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections compared to previous polls In an interview with the Asianet News Network PM Modi also addressed the alleged narrative of the BJP being a party of the upper casteA narrative has been created in our country for a long time that the BJP means upper caste party But the reality is that in the BJP most are scheduled castes SCs most are scheduled tribes STs and most are other backward classes OBCs All these are and most are OBCs in our ministry Then they said that its a Bharat Urban Party Today the entire character of my party is such that it has the maximum number of rural people he saidThen they said this character was created because the BJP is a PuraanPanthi or oldschool party and cant think of anything new But today if anyone is leading the digital movement in the world it is the Bharatiya Janata Partyled government So this misconception that they are spreading is wrong PM saidSpeaking on the BJPs electoral performance in south India the PM said You see Telangana where our vote share has doubled In the 2019 parliamentary elections the BJP emerged as the single largest party in the South The BJP has the highest number of MPs I believe that in 2024 the Lok Sabha elections the vote share is going to increase compared to the previous elections Seats will also increaseTurning to regional issues Prime Minister Modi condemned corruption within cooperative banks in Kerala pledging decisive action against wrongdoers He emphasised equitable development and refuted allegations of neglect towards southern states like Karnataka and KeralaSecondly the identity of the governments in the Southwhether it is Congress the LDF Left Democratic Front or the DMK Dravida Munnetra Kazhagamwhat is their identity in all places Today we BJP are in power in Puducherry which is in the south It should be known we are in government And our MPs win from Andaman and Nicobar where most of our south Indian and Bengali brothers live Hence this simplification that is happening Now what is the style of their governments Theirs are completely familyrun governments and there is rampant corruption Now you see what the situation is in the south PM Modi saidWhen I go there during elections why do I talk about cooperative societies Its the biggest crime against a poor man it cannot be forgiven Poor families keep their money in cooperative banks put in societies hoping to get good returns He feels that he would keep his hardearned money for his daughters marriageits the money of fishermen farmers and labourers There are around 300 cooperative banks that are completely run by lefties And about one lakh crore rupees of common and poor people are lying there Their operators used this money to buy properties We have just attached around Rs 90 crore and Im currently taking legal advice on how to return this money to people who kept their money in the bank I requested ED to start returning their money and attaching the properties of those who were looting these people he saidWe have returned Rs 17000 crore of seized money to whoever it was This is not an election issue he added When asked about Kerala PM Modi said that from the time of the BJP and Jana Sangh we want to serve in every part of the country Work where there is political benefit and dont where it isnt profitablethese are not our principlesJana Sanghs biggest national convention was held in Kerala in 1967 For us Kerala is not only a field to come into power Kerala is also similar to other areas we serve and we serve there with equal dedication Hundreds of our workers were gunned down and political murders were committed Even today we work there with the intention of serving Maa Bharti and left cadres were convicted by courts for the murder of our people many of them are in jail Despite that be it Kutch Guwahati Kashmir or Kanyakumari every corner of the country is ours he said He also alleged that there is so much corruption inside Kerala but the ecosystem there does not allow it to come outYou must have seen that in Tripura the left ruled the state for threefour decades and when the BJP came to power people started releasing that they the left used to loot them The BJP is doing so well in Tripura that they are making the BJP win from there again and again The same is the case with Bengal and Kerala there is so much corruption but they have made an ecosystem that doesnt let anything come out PM Modi addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever