PM Decries Attempts To ‘Denigrate' Integrity Of Polls

NDA resolution lauds Modi’s work in the last five years

- Nistula Hebbar

On a day when a group of Opposition parties approached the courts and the Election Commission, alleging tampering of electronic voting machines, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told 36 of his 39 NDA partner party leaders that at a time when the sheer size, scale and integrity of Indian elections were becoming a global brand, efforts were on to undermine the exercise.

He was speaking at a dinner hosted by BJP president Amit Shah where, in a show of strength by the NDA, senior leaders like Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan were present.