Dibrugarh has a lot of Adivasi voters. Do you have any worries that you replaced your colleague and incumbent MP, Rameswar Teli, who is an Adivasi, as the candidate?I have no worries because we are all members of a the same party. Whatever the party decides, you have to follow it. There are distinctive policies in our party and we always admire, adopt and implement them. That’s why, I was made the chief minister the last time and then, a central minister. We have to respect the party’s decisions.The critics say the BJP had won the last two polls riding on Modi’s popularity but that popularity has now waned. So, is the 400-seat target a realistic number?The 400-seat target is the number set for the NDA. While the target for the BJP alone is set at 370 seats. We have powerful allies; it is possible. I believe the credibility of the BJP and its allies is being witnessed by the people of the country. People’s marks will be in favour of us because they have seen Congress for 60 years when there was misrule, bad governance, corrupt practices and communal, family, parochial and divide-and-rule politics, which ultimately made the country weak. India is a very resourceful country with a 1.4 billion population, but it was compelled to take the back seat in terms of development because there was a lack of policies, vision and credible leadership under Congress rule. For Congress, it is always family first before the nation’s development and that is the key difference between the Congress and the BJP. The BJP is genuinely a party with a difference. With the BJP, the poorest of the poor have also been taken on board. PM Modi has given special status to the border villages and made them the first villages of the country.
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