BJP will win absolute majority in J&K, says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said BJP will form the government in Jammu and Kashmir by winning an absolute majority in the ongoing assembly elections in the union territory.

Addressing an election rally in Jammu ahead of the third and last phase of the elections on October 1, Modi said, "In the last two phases heavy voter turnout has conveyed the mood of people of J&K as they have voted in favour of BJP. We are destined to form the government here with absolute majority."

Modi reiterated his government would restore statehood of J&K.


He remembered the surgical strike on terrorist camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) carried out on the night of September 28, 2016, in response to the Uri terror attack.

The surgical strike announced to the world the arrival of new India that believes in taking the attack home, he said. "Since then, kingpins of terrorism know that if they do any misadventure, Modi will get them even from the cosmic subterranean."

In the last phase of the assembly elections, 40 seats are going for polls including 24 in Jammu and 16 in Kashmir Valley.

Modi said the people of Jammu will for the first time get a government of their choice. "This election has given a historic chance to the people of Jammu who have faced discrimination all along," he said, and raised the slogan, "Jammu ki yahi pukar, aarahi hai Bhajpa sarkar."

Modi targeted the Congress party for seeking evidence of the surgical strike. "On surgical strikes, they speak the language of Pakistan," he alleged. "Will you forgive such a Congress?"