Politics of hate stood rejected in N-E: PM to Karnataka’s youth

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that the people of the North-East have rejected the “politics of hate” by voting the BJP to power.

He was addressing a youth convention via video-conferencing near Bengaluru in Karnataka — a Congress-ruled state that goes to the polls later this year.

This was after the BJP wrested Left bastion Tripura and its ally NDPP staked claim to form the next government in Nagaland. The BJP may also share power even in hung Meghalaya despite the Congress emerging as the single-largest party.

The PM said the results in Tripura, where the BJP ended 25 years of Left rule, gave him immense joy. “The brothers and sisters of the northeast have rejected the politics of hate by unanimously voting the BJP to power,” he said.

The NDA already controls Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh. Congress-ruled Mizoram will vote later this year. Modi said people were feeling cut off from India due to the policies and decisions of the previous Left and Congress regimes in the North-East.

The PM said his government at the Centre has been working relentlessly to wipe off this feeling.

“Our government has resolved to work in such a way that no part of the country and …read more