{"id":312562,"date":"2019-05-23T16:58:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T16:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312562"},"modified":"2019-05-23T16:58:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T16:58:22","slug":"this-is-victory-of-democracy-says-pm-modi-after-massive-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/this-is-victory-of-democracy-says-pm-modi-after-massive-win\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;This is victory of democracy&#8217;, says PM Modi after massive win"},"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-312563 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/modi-win-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/modi-win-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/modi-win-768x396.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/modi-win-696x359.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/modi-win-814x420.jpg 814w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/modi-win.jpg 822w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/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 thanked the citizens of the country over the BJP&#8217;s landslide win in the Lok Sabha elections today, saying it was a victory of &#8220;democracy&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi promised to devote every moment of his time for the people of India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a speech at the party headquarters to celebrate the BJP\u2019s spectacular victory, Modi said that the election has thrown up a mandate for new India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This mandate is the biggest event in the country and in the world, PM Modi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is not Modi&#8217;s victory. This is a victory for hopeful youths. This is a victory of the poor. This is a victory for transparency. This is a victory of farmers, he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On the occasion, Modi also made three promises. He said he promised that he would never do anything with ill intention, \u201cwill do nothing for himself&#8221; and \u201cdedicate himself, every cell of his body and time for the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier PM Modi in a tweet thanked India for keeping faith in the party. He saluted BJP workers for their determination and hard work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThank you India! The faith placed in our alliance is humbling and gives us strength to work even harder to fulfil people&#8217;s aspirations. I salute every BJP Karyakarta for their determination, perseverance &amp; hardwork. They went home to home, elaborating on our development agenda,\u201d Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked the citizens of the country over the BJP&#8217;s landslide win in the Lok Sabha elections today, saying it was a victory of &#8220;democracy&#8221;.\u00a0 Modi promised to devote every moment of his time for the people of India. In a speech at the party headquarters to celebrate the BJP\u2019s spectacular victory, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312562"}],"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=312562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312564,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312562\/revisions\/312564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}