'We Know How to Digest Victory, We Don't Mock the Defeated': PM Modi on NDA Values

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the BJP-led NDA doesn't develop a frenzy in the lap of victory and knows how to digest victory without mocking the defeated. 

Addressing the NDA Parliamentary Party meeting in the old Parliament, PM Modi highlighted NDA's ‘Mahavijay’ and noted the opposition's effort of pushing a narrative to show NDA's defeat in the Lok Sabha election 2024. 

“We were neither defeated nor are we defeated. But our behaviour after the 4th shows our identity that we know how to digest victory. Our values ​​are such that we do not develop frenzy in the lap of victory and neither do we have the values ​​of mocking the defeated. We protect the victorious and we do not have the perversion of mocking the defeated." 

Taking a swipe at the INDI alliance, he said, “If we look at the results of the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections, from every parameter, the world believes that this is NDA's 'Mahavijay'. You saw how the two days went, it seemed as if we had lost, because they (the opposition) had to make such imaginary promises to raise the morale of their workers." 

'Even After 10 Years, Congress Couldn't Touch 100 Mark'

The Prime Minister further took a sharp jibe at the Congress, saying that even after being 10 years in the opposition, they couldn't cross the 100-seat mark in the Lok Sabha election. 

“Even after 10 years, Congress could not touch the figure of 100 seats. If we combine the 2014, 2019 and 2024 elections, Congress did not even get as many seats as BJP got in this election. I can clearly see the people of the INDI alliance were sinking slowly earlier, now they are going to sink at a fast pace,” he said. 

He further thanked the people of India for placing trust in the BJP-led NDA for the third time and said, “The mandate of 2024 is strengthening one thing again and again that in today's scenario, the country trusts only NDA. When there is such unbreakable trust, it is natural for the expectations of the country to increase. I consider this good...I had said earlier too that the 10 years that we worked are just trailer. It was not just an electoral statement, it was my commitment.”