First-time contestant Piyush Goyal sure of winning -- on back of Modi work and wave
Piyush Goyal, contesting a Lok Sabha election for the first time, asserted on Wednesday that he will surely win — but almost entirely because of the work done by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, adding that this election will determine the fate of India. «I recognise that we are all subsumed under Mr Modi's performance… It is gradually dawning on people that this is Modi's election,» Goyal told PTI during a road show — a slow crawling journey atop a decked up pickup truck that wound its way through a ward of Borivali in the Mumbai North constituency.
Goyal, a Rajya Sabha member and a veteran manager of many an election campaign, including that of Lal Krishna Advani in 1989, replaced incumbent Gopal Shetty as BJP's candidate for the constituency. The elections are due on May 20.
With four days left for campaigning, which ends on the evening of May 18, Goyal is crisscrossing all the assembly segments of the constituency every day in his truck in a set pattern: every morning, a few hundred party workers wearing orange caps, BJP scarves hanging down their shoulders and lotus sticker on their clothing, gather at the starting point of the road show.
Enthusiasm builds up before Goyal arrives. Drums and cymbals are beaten vigorously amid slogans of «abki baar 400 paar», the call given by Modi himself to assert that the BJP-led NDA coalition will win more than 400 seats, even though the opposition has repeatedly said it is an impossible target.
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