'May 16 is very special': PM Modi recalls 2014 mandate in Netherlands speech

NEW DELHI: Addressing the Indian diaspora successful The Hague, Netherlands, Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Saturday highlighted the value of today's date, recalling that connected this time successful 2014, the BJP-led NDA secured a decisive mandate to signifier a stable, full-majority authorities aft a decennary of the UPA authorities nether the Congress.In the 2014 wide elections, the BJP unsocial won 282 seats successful the 543-member Lok Sabha, marking the archetypal clip since 1984 that a azygous enactment secured a wide bulk connected its own.“Today is May 16, and this time is precise peculiar for different crushed arsenic well. Twelve years agone today, connected May 16, 2014, thing peculiar happened. On this precise time successful 2014, the results of the Lok Sabha elections were announced. After decades, it became definite that a unchangeable and afloat bulk authorities would beryllium formed successful India.

That was 1 day, and this is today's day,” PM Modi told his audience.The BJP’s spot tally accrued to 303 successful 2019 earlier it mislaid its bulk successful 2024, winning 240 seats.Meanwhile, the premier curate reflected connected his agelong tenure successful nationalist office, saying, “13 years arsenic main curate (of Gujarat)... 12 years arsenic premier minister... successful the antiauthoritarian world, for 25 years... the unwavering enactment of crores and crores of voters...

this is simply a substance of immense bully luck for me.”He added that this enactment was not conscionable governmental but emotional.“For me, this is not conscionable a number... this is your blessing, which is my top asset,” the premier curate remarked.PM Modi is successful the Netherlands arsenic portion of a five-nation tour. He arrived successful the European federation from the United Arab Emirates and is besides scheduled to sojourn Sweden and Norway, earlier concluding his circuit with a sojourn to Italy.