“We will return with an absolute majority”: Modi

BJP president, accompanied by PM Narendra Modi, addressed the media at the party HQ in New Delhi, on Friday just six days before the results for the Lok Sabha elections 2019 are scheduled to be released on May 23.

Here are the highlights: 

• We will return with an absolute majority: PM Modi
• If other parties want to join NDA, we will welcome them: Shah
• As many as 80 BJP workers have been killed  in West Bengal, questions why BJP workers are being killed in Trinamool-ruled state: Shah
• BJP will act against Bhopal candidate Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur after an internal probe: Shah
• BJP will perform well in West Bengal, Odisha and in the South: Shah
• Rejecting allegations levelled by Congress president Rahul Gandhi against the BJP on Rafale fighter jet deal, Shah said that Rahul could have proved it.

Shah today presented the BJP's report card and claimed that Narendra Modi-led NDA will win more than 300 seats in the ongoing elections.

Addressing the media, PM Modi said that BJP will retain the power with a greater mandate and would serve people of the country for the second consecutive turn. The prime minister said that poll campaign was a success for the ruling dispensation.