For the first time the PM has talked in a philosophical mode. It looks like the BJP is unable to digest the results. Yogi could not make it in UP this time.
The Ram Temple has boomeranged on the BJP in UP.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the last cabinet meeting of the current tenure said victory and defeat are part of politics. PM Modi’s BJP, which won 282 seats in 2014 and 303 in the 2019 election, won 240 seats this time – 32 short of the 272-majority mark.
It will now depend on the 53 seats won by members of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to form government.
“We have done good work for the last 10 years. We will continue to do so,” PM Modi told NDA leaders at the last cabinet meeting.
On the Lok Sabha election results – the NDA will stake claim to form government for a third time, calling the results a victory of the world’s largest democracy – PM Modi said, “Victory and defeat are part of politics.
The numbers game will go on.” After the meeting, he resigned from the President of India. She has advised Modi to continue till the next swearing-in.