INDIA is Ghamandiya : Modi

New Delhi: Taking a dig at the Opposition alliance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that they are not "INDIA" but "ghamandiya" (arrogant). The Prime Minister took a potshot at the Opposition while interacting with the NDA MPs from Bihar late on Thursday evening.

In the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the Opposition bloc parties have named their alliance INDIA — Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance. Sources said that during his interaction with the NDA MPs from Bihar, Modi told the parliamentarian that the Opposition alliance is not INDIA but ghamandiya.
"The Prime Minister called the Opposition alliance ghamandiya and suggested that we should call them ghamandiya and not INDIA," an NDA MP present in the meeting said.

During his interaction with NDA MPs from Bihar, the Prime Minister, sources said, told them that they should expose how the Mahagathbandhan government has betrayed the mandate of 2020 and how "jungle raj" is destroying the state.

"The Prime Minister also told the MPs to give facts about how the state is suffering under the Mahagathbandhan government. The PM asked the MPs to stress in their constituencies how the BJP never cared for the chief minister's post despite winning more seats than the JD(U) when the latter was part of the NDA alliance, unlike the former alliance partner," sources said.

In another meeting, Modi also met NDA MPs from Delhi, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. The Prime Minister, according to sources, advised the parliamentarians to increase their social media presence and use it to spread the schemes and works of Union governments.

The Prime Minister, sources claim, also said that the UPA had only one programme, MGNREGA, to show to the people, while the NDA has implemented hundreds of developmental works during the last nine years.

During the meeting with the NDA MPs, Modi advised the parliamentarians to avoid out-of-turn talking and gave the example of former Union minister Sushma Swaraj, who never crossed the line while speaking.