Haryana Assembly Elections 2024 | Congress' maximum time goes into infighting, says PM Modi

The PM also alleged that the Congress has failed as an opposition in the past 10 years.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Modi on Friday asked workers in the party’s Haryana unit to work to their best efforts in the last week ahead of the polls in Haryana and said that the focus should be on every last family. 

“We have a week ahead of us for polling. Your focus should be on every family in each polling booth," Modi said. In all, there are 20,629 polling booths in Haryana.

The interaction, under the “Mera Booth Sabse Majboot” programme, took place via the NaMo app where the PM is looking forward to gathering feedback and stemming infighting.

Modi spoke to the workers for an hour where he dealt in detail about the special connection he nurtured with the people of Haryana.

“He spoke about the work he had personally put in for the organisation in the 1990s, and said that he will always have gratitude to the people who helped him,” a general secretary from the state said.

He told the workers that while the Congress is claiming it will come to power, the BJP is not ready to give up. “Several people are saying the Congress is becoming weak. During the past 10 years, the Congress has failed as the Opposition too and could not raise people’s issues ... They will never win the trust of the people of Haryana,” he said.

He said that the Congress’s internal strife is making it lose. “But our strategy should not be to sit and hope their internal strife works for us. They are going to deal with it, but we have to do our bit by working harder than before," he said. 

The PM also asked the workers to go door to door “exposing the Congress’s lies”. “In Himachal, the Congress promised to give Rs 1,500 to women who are still waiting for it even after two years. You must go and tell the people about their lies,” Modi said.  

Recalling that he worked extensively for party organisation in Haryana in the 1990s, the prime minister told the BJP workers that it was his fortune that he got the opportunity to work in the state for a long period and it was also a learning time for him.

"I remember one thing. Be it workers of the old generation or the new generation, their hard work always inspired me," PM Modi said, adding that he feels happy whenever he gets an opportunity to talk to the grassroots workers.

He said these days you are working hard round-the-clock at your booth with the mantra of 'Mera Booth Sabse Mazboot'. There is only one open secret of election strategy and that is one who wins polling booths, wins the elections, Modi said.

"Polling booth is our 'mazboot chowki'," he said, adding BJP worker never allows his flag to go down in a polling booth.

"In every polling booth, a worker should have that pride that he will not allow the BJP flag to go down. He will not be less than anyone which means he will get more polling done than before, and get more votes for the BJP than before. You have to work hard for this," the prime minister told the party workers.

Haryana goes to polls on October 5 while results will be declared on October 8. The BJP is eyeing a third consecutive term in power in the state.

With PTI inputs

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