- Thursday, February 27, 2025
Hours after the opposition parties came up with an acronym ‘INDIA’, Modi revealed a new full form of NDA, the ruling alliance led by his BJP.
By: Shubham Ghosh
POLITICAL fever was building up in India ahead of its general elections next year with both the opposition and the ruling alliance coining new terms to score a brownie point over the other.
Hours after the opposition alliance, looking to stop prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the next year’s polls, came up with an acronym INDIA or Indian National Development Inclusive Alliance and projected that the big battle of 2024 would be one between Modi and ‘INDIA’, the prime minister himself coined a new full form of the NDA — New India, Developed Nation, Aspiration of People of India.
While 26 opposition parties including the Indian National Congress huddled together in Bengaluru in the southern state of Karnataka, the NDA’s meeting was attended by 38 parties including the BJP in New Delhi.
Addressing the NDA meeting, Modi paid tributes to former alliance leaders LK Advani and the late Balasaheb Thackeray and Parkash Singh Badal and said that for the coalition, it is “nation first, security of the nation first, progress first and empowerment of people first”.
Calling the NDA “a beautiful rainbow of regional aspirations”, Modi said the alliance was taking the lead in showing the spirit of “sabka prayas” (everyone’s effort) at a time when they were working for a developed India.
He also slammed the opposition, saying its alliance was formed out of political compulsion and based on dynastic politics and accused it of indulging in casteism and regionalism.
The prime minister also said that in the 1990s, the Indian national Congress used alliances to bring instability in the country in the 1990s. He accused the opposition party of forming and pulling down governments. He said the NDA on the other hand was not formed against anybody or to remove anybody from power but to bring stability to the country.
Modi said as an opposition too, the NDA did constructive politics. He also said that they never sought foreign help to oppose governments.
The NDA came to power in 2014 following a decade of the Indian National Congress-led United Progressive Alliance’s rule.
