Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri and his wife Lakshmi Puri cast their votes at a polling booth in Delhi on Saturday.
“Come out in large numbers and vote. Political consciousness is very high in India. Shed your apathy…The issues are very clear, the issues are about development. But the issues that the opposition is framing, they try to create a false narrative in the process they score self-goals…They have lost it…We will have a hattrick in Delhi…,” Puri said speaking to reporters on Friday.
Puri said that it will not be a daunting task to get more than 400 seats in the Lok Sabha elections because the Bharatiya Janata Party has already secured 303 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
“There is a sentiment for ‘400 paar’ and there is no difficulty in crossing 400 seats since we already have 303 seats and our seats increase by 10 per cent every election. That makes it 330 to 333 seats, if it increases by 15 per cent, that makes it 3345. We’ve 37 allies. If even half of them win 2-3 seats,” Puri said speaking to ANI on Saturday.
“People like Shashi Tharoor should worry about their seats and the seats of the Congress Party. It is just a matter of a few days when people will get to know how many seats the NDA will win,” he added.
A total of 58 constituencies from six states and two union territories are set for polls in the sixth phase of polling and over 11.13 crore voters will be exercising their franchise to decide the fate of 889 candidates including two former Chief Ministers – Manohar Lal Khattar contesting as the BJP candidate from Karnal and Mehbooba Mufti, the PDP nominee from Anantnag-Rajouri.
The sixth phase of Lok Sabha polls includes eight seats in Bihar, all 10 seats in Haryana, one seat in Jammu and Kashmir, four in Jharkhand, all seven seats in Delhi, six in Odisha, 14 in Uttar Pradesh, and eight in West Bengal.