PM Modi record-breaking interview with Rajat Sharma , Amidst the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi answered many important questions in his most important interview of the year with India TV Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Rajat Sharma. This interview included issues ranging from Pakistan’s nuclear threats to opposition’s allegations. This interview took place in Bharat Mandapam, in which thousands of people welcomed the Prime Minister with loud applause.
This interview will be available on various platforms at 9 pm. Viewers can watch it on India TV’s social media platforms like India TV channel, website, app and YouTube channel.
400 पार कोई बीजेपी का गढ़ा हुआ नारा नहीं है, बल्कि ये देशवासियों के दिल से निकला है। pic.twitter.com/UrwoFY3TrB
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 24, 2024
Prime Minister Modi gave a strong reply to a question on the opposition’s claims about Pakistan’s nuclear capability. He said, “I have personally gone to Lahore to check their nuclear power. A reporter there was saying ‘O Allah…how did he come without a visa?’ I replied, ‘This was once my country.'”
Throughout the interview, the audience applauded repeatedly, even when the Prime Minister requested quiet. There was a massive cheering and support for Prime Minister Modi in the program organized at Bharat Mandapam.
Modi said, “I feel, God Almighty has sent me for a special purpose. God has sent me to achieve the objective of a Viksit Bharat by 2047. God is showing me the path, God is giving me the energy. I am fully confident I will achieve that target by 2047 and until that target is achieved, God will not call me back (Jab Tak Poora Nahin Hota, Mujhe Parmatma Waapas Nahin Bulayenge). I do not have any other place in this world now except this.” Modi is presently 74 years old.
Modi said, “400 Paar” is a slogan not coined by BJP, but by the people. “We were already 400 in strength in Parliament during the last five years, given the support that we got from other parties. Any child who gets 95 per cent marks will naturally strive for a higher target.”
Modi hit out at Congress and other opposition parties for complaining that they have not been given a level-playing field in this election. He reminded how the then Chief Election Commissioner (TN Seshan) postponed polling across the country in 1991 for 22 days after Congress leader Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in Sriperumbudur on May 21, 1991, when only one round of polling was over. Elections were postponed till mid-June and voting finally took place on June 12 and 15.
“Was that a level-playing field?”, asked PM Modi. He said, “Normally, when a candidate dies, election in that constituency is countermanded, but in 1991, election across the country was postponed and polling resumed only after the funeral of the departed leader was widely publicized”.
“The same person (TN Seshan), after retirement, fought against our party president ( LK Advani) in Gandhinagar in 1999 on a Congress ticket”, Modi said.