Lok Sabha elections: Amit Shah says this win is proof of PM Modi's popularity

In his triumphant victory speech after NDA retained power at the Centre, BJP President Amit Shah today hit out at the opposition and said that in the last 70 years it was the rule of "parivarvad", and this victory was the win of "Sabka Sath Sabka Vikas". While addressing BJP members at party headquarters, he said that this was the test of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's popularity and that it is after 50 years in Indian history that a Prime Minister has come back with full majority. 

He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has devoted himself to the task of upliftment of 28-crore below poverty population and this verdict is the outcome of his selfless service.

The party president said that Narendra Modi is again going to become Prime Minister of the country. The party received over 50 percent votes in Karnataka, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Delhi, Shah said. 

The party president said that Congress could not open the score in 17 states. These are Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu Kashmir, Manipur, Mizoram, Odisha, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Andaman and Nicobar, Chandigarh, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, he said.

People have given a verdict against nepotism, corruption and casteism, and the party won in Uttar Pradesh where parties like Maywati's BSP and Akhilesh Yadav-led SP forged an alliance, the party president said. Casteism will no longer work, he added.

He stated that Opposition parties tried to mislead people by making noise about EVMs, but that trick did not work. He trained his guns at opposition leaders saying that if they did not put too much effort in defaming BJP then they could have at least opened their score in states where they got zero seats.  

Shah said that party could win 18 Lok Sabha seats in Bengal despite so much violence and intimidation there.