PM Modi echoes Indira, says political rivals have become irrelevant

He asks the people of Uttar Pradesh to rise above caste considerations to vote for BJP

It was billed as his first public rally after 50-days of “pain” of the note ban exercise. But, Prime Minister Narendra Modi didn’t announce any new “gains” beyond the schemes he unveiled in his New Year’s eve address to the nation, and even these were mentioned cursorily at the end of his speech at Lucknow’s Ramabai Ambedkar Park on Monday afternoon.

Addressing a huge crowd, the PM said the “black money” deposited in banks will be used for the welfare of the poor, but unlike his earlier speeches since November 8 in the state, particularly in Agra on November 20, he