400 days for Lok Sabha polls: Why 2024 will be historic in many ways
India TodayEvery time an election approaches, many of us choose words like historic to describe it. ââ On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told his party, the BJP, that “We have 400 days before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, and we have to do everything in people’s service. PM Modi has matched Manmohan Singh’s record of two consecutive terms, even though the BJP has seen the Congress leader as somebody who took instructions from the Gandhis. While the Congress credits Nehru for building modern India and Indira for splitting Pakistan into two, the BJP places the Jammu & Kashmir issue at Nehru’s doorstep and also blames him for the 1962 war defeat at the hands of China. From the BJP’s own quota, Atal Bihari Vajpayee became PM thrice, but the sum total of his three tenures was only a little over six years.