UP has 'decided 2024', says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked all voters for participating in "the festival of democracy and ensuring BJP this victory." He was addressing the gethering at the BJP hq in New Delhi on Thusrday. He said the victory today will build a base for the general elections of 2024. "Many people had said that the fate of the 2019 general election was decided when the 2017 UP election result was declared. All I can say is that the same thought applies now too... the 2024 general election result can be glimpsed in the result of the 2022 UP election," PM Modi said.

Pointing to the party's spectacular victory in Uttar Pradesh, PM Modi said this election has proved once again that there is no truth to the allegations of caste based politics in Uttar Pradesh. "But since 2014 – in 2014, 2017, 2019 and now 2022 -- the people have shown again and again that they vote only for vikaswaad ki rajneeti (Politics of progress and development). What more proof do these naysayers want - that UP votes for progress, not for caste," he said. “It is unfortunate that even when thousands of Indian students, Indian citizens were stranded in Ukraine, there was talk of breaking the morale of the country. These people also tried to malign Operation Ganga. This is a big concern for the future of India,” Modi said.

These people also tried to regionalize Operation Ganga. These people have given a different colour of regionalism and communalism to every scheme - it is a major worry for India's future.

- PM @narendramodi pic.twitter.com/D2TLuPuz39

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Of UP's 403 seats, the BJP is on way to win 270-plus seats -- 48 below its 2017 score of 320-plus seats. The party is set to win Manipur with 32 of the 60 seats and is cruising to a comfortable victory in Uttarakhand with 48 of 70 seats. In Goa, the BJP has touched the halfway mark of 20 seats and declared that it will form government in the coastal state with the support of three Independents.