I am seeing a new India: Modi 

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday he was seeing a new India the way people voted in the just ended assembly elections.

"Despite the absence of any emotional issue, so many came forward to vote. I am seeing a new India here," Modi told party leaders and activists at the party headquarters on Ashoka Road. "People are saying 'Give us an opportunity, we will work hard'. This is the foundation of a new India. The election victory is a pious order of the people," Modi said. Modi's comments came a day after the BJP swept to power in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand and has vowed to form governments in Manipur and Goa too.

Fresh from BJP's landslide win in UP and Uttarakhand after a bitter and often divisive campaign, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday talked about inclusivity and pitched for building a 'new India' by 2022 that would have made the nation's founding fathers proud. Accepting felicitations from party leaders and supporters at BJP headquarters, Modi said he saw the election results, particularly in Uttar Pradesh, as the "foundation of the new India".

"I see this victory as the foundation of a new India where 65 per cent of the population will be of young people below 35 years of age... a new India of unprecedently vigilant women. A new India where the poor do not want anything by way of charity, but seek opportunity to chart out their own course. I see this change happening," he told the gathering which lapped up every word he said, amid repeated chants of 'Modi! Modi! Modi!'

"An India that is driven by innovation, hard work and creativity; an India characterized by peace, unity and brotherhood; and an India free from corruption, terrorism, black money and dirt." The theme of development ran through his felicitation speech too. "Beyond the emotive issues, political parties fought shy of going to elections on the issue of development. Development is a difficult subject. In these elections, there was a lack of emotive issues, but the huge voter turnout after the campaign based on development shows the transition that his happening towards creation of a new India," he said.

These elections must be evaluated as people have voted heavily despite the absence of any emotional issue. The poor have voted in large numbers on the topic of development, he said. Modi, who was accused by his rivals of playing caste and religion politics during the campaign, said the BJP-led dispensation will will take everybody along as "in democracy governments are formed with a majority but run with consensus".

The BJP has won 312 of 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh- 325 along with allies - and has credited PM Modi for its most important victory since winning the 2014 national election.

Modi Takes Victory Walk To BJP Headquarters

Greeting jubilant party workers and supporters, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday walked to the BJP headquarters in Lutyens' Delhi, a day after its historic win in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand elections.

This was the first public appearance of the Prime Minister after poll results in five states came out on Saturday. As PM's motorcade arrived at the roundabout on Ashoka Road near Le Meridien Hotel, he was greeted by supporters who had gathered on either side of the road. A few metres away from the roundabout, he got off his car and walked towards the BJP headquarters to attend the party's Parliamentary Board meeting. Surrounded by security personnel, Modi waved at his supporters during his 'victory walk' amid shower of petals and chants of 'Modi, Modi'.

In view of Prime Minister's roadshow, a multi-layer security cover was put in place on Ashoka Road with hundreds of personnel of Delhi Police, CISF and BSF as well as NSG commandos deployed. BJP workers danced to the drum beats outside the party headquarters, where Modi was felicitated, waved party flags and shouted slogans of 'Har Har Modi, Ghar Ghar Modi'.

Police put up barricades on both sides of Ashoka Road in order to make a clear passage for the Prime Minister's arrival at the BJP headquarters. Outside the party office, a large LCD screen was installed for the people who had gathered to hear the Prime Minister.