Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that neither Kashi nor its people will him till his death.
PM Modi was addressing booth-level workers of the party from eight Assembly segments at Sampurnanand Sanskrit University ground in Varanasi.
Speaking at the event, PM Modi, who is a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi, said when the people of Kashi were feeling proud about the Kashi Vishwanath Dham project, he saw the extent to which some people have stooped down in the politics of India.
“I do not like to criticize anyone personally nor do I want to criticize anyone. But when I was publicly wished for my death in Kashi, I really felt very happy, my heart felt very relaxed,” the prime minister said.
He further said, “I felt that even my bitterest adversaries were seeing how much love the people of Kashi had for me. Those people fulfilled my wish. This means that till my death neither the Kashi nor its people of Kashi will leave me.”
Addressing the party workers, PM Modi said, “The party has given me the meritorious benefit of serving Kashi, sitting at the feet of Mahadev and Mother Ganga.”
“The workers of BJP work for the country. For all of us, it has always been ‘party above individual and country above party’. We win elections but at the same time we win the hearts of the people,” the prime minister said.
Talking about Varanasi, he said that the path of development on which the city is going forward will open the way for the country to be free from poverty and crime.
Varanasi will go under polling in the last phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls on March 7.
The Prime Minister had held similar meetings with booth level workers before the state Assembly polls and Lok Sabha election in 2017 and 2019, respectively.
