{"id":312407,"date":"2019-05-17T14:01:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T14:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312407"},"modified":"2019-05-17T14:01:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T14:01:34","slug":"pm-modi-addresses-press-conference-with-amit-shah-at-bjp-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-addresses-press-conference-with-amit-shah-at-bjp-headquarters\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi addresses press conference with Amit Shah at BJP headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312409 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/modi-amit-shah-1-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/modi-amit-shah-1-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/modi-amit-shah-1-768x459.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/modi-amit-shah-1-696x416.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/modi-amit-shah-1-702x420.jpg 702w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/modi-amit-shah-1.jpg 774w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his first appearance before media, asserted confidently that the BJP will return with full majority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt has not happened for a long time in the country that a government returns to power with absolute majority for second consecutive time,\u201d Modi said, at his first press conference in the BJP headquarters in Delhi that he addressed with BJP president Amit Shah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi said he wanted to thank the nation, the people who remained with him through his highs and lows.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Referring to his 2014 victory, Modi said &#8220;On May 16, 2014, the results came out and a huge casualty took place on May 17, 2014. People who used to bet for Congress to win in elections faced huge losses then.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi has been criticised by Congress president Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders for not addressing a single press conference in his five-year tenure. Today\u2019s interaction came as a surprise to many.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, during his campaign for this Lok Sabha election, PM Modi gave a series of interviews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi told reporters that he will not take questions as in BJP&#8217;s system, discipline has to be followed, \u2018in our party, president is everything\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP president Amit Shah took questions from the media and said, \u201cthe BJP will get a majority on its own and the NDA will form the government. We started our election campaign from January 16&#8230; We are confident that we&#8217;ll receive good results.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his first appearance before media, asserted confidently that the BJP will return with full majority. \u201cIt has not happened for a long time in the country that a government returns to power with absolute majority for second consecutive time,\u201d Modi said, at his first press conference in the BJP headquarters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[1194,3939,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312410,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312407\/revisions\/312410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}