J P Nadda Thursday asked the people of Uttarakhand to again give all the five Lok Sabha seats in the state to the BJP to help Narendra Modi return as prime minister for a third term and make India the third biggest economy in the world. «It is your national responsibility,» Nadda told his first election meeting at Pithoragarh in the state in support of Ajay Tamta, the BJP candidate from the reserved Almora Lok Sabha seat.
Prime Minister Modi made the country the fifth biggest economy in the world despite the challenges of the Covid pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war, he said.
«If you help him get a third term as PM by ensuring the BJP's victory in all the five seats, he will make India the third biggest economy,» Nadda said.
Later addressing another election meeting at Vikasnagar in Dehradun in support of party candidate from Tehri Lok Sabha seat Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah, the BJP president said Modi has introduced the politics of performance in the country.
«Modi has replaced vote bank politics of caste and appeasement which was going on in the country for decades with the politics of performance and development,» he said.
«Your vote to Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah will be your stamp of approval on Modi's brand of performance-based politics,» he said.
Terming the opposition INDIA bloc as an alliance of family-centric parties, he said it is INDI alliance versus the BJP in these elections. Citing examples, he named the Abdullahs and the Muftis of Jammu and Kashmir, Karunanidhi-Stalin family in Tamil Nadu, Pawar and