NEW DELHI: While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) continues to build emotional connect with voters for romping home in the Gujarat assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s image as a “global leader of repute” is, undoubtedly, a shot in the arm for the ruling party in the state. The star campaigners of the saffron party in Gujarat are hard selling the fact that PM Modi has enhanced India’s position in the world since 2014. A survey further cementing PM Modi’s stature as an international leader came as a godsend for the BJP which is seeking to surpass all previous records of victory in the Gujarat polls.
According to the survey, PM Modi has topped the list of top global leaders with an approval rating of 77%. PM Modi is followed by Australian PM Anthony Albanese with 56% and US President Joe Biden with 41% at the second and third spot respectively. The survey has been done by Morning Consult Political Intelligence Group. The swiftness with which the BJP posted the survey on its official twitter handle suggests its eagerness to capitalise on Narendra Modi’s image “as a global stalwart”.
Sharing the list released by the survey agency, BJP’s carefully crafted tweet message reads: Yet again PM Shri Narendra Modi tops the global podium. Approval ratings of PM Modi are the highest among all major world leaders. PM Modi tops the list of most popular global leaders with 77% approval ratings.”
“India’s independent foreign policy under the leadership of PM Modi, despite immense pressure from various western quarters including the US, is being appreciated by the voters even down to the village level,” the diplomats, who are receiving feedback from their contacts in Gujarat, told The Sunday Guardian. “Diplomatic officials are supposed to keep a tab over the foreign policy issues being referred to and discussed during the election campaign in Gujarat or any other state,” say sources. In fact, scores of NRIs, especially Gujaratis, from across the world are said to be visiting rural and urban pockets of the state, campaigning in favour of the BJP. These NRIs are explaining to the villagers how PM Modi is a grand and respectable leader in various other countries, and how India’s position has been enhanced by virtue of his hard work and statesmanship, sources said.
It may be recalled that while addressing Pravasi Gujarati Parv 2022 recently, Union Home Minister Amit Shah had appealed to NRIs from Gujarat to “become ambassador for BJP ‘’ and go to every village to help the BJP win the upcoming Assembly elections. It was at an event held in Ahmedabad by AAIANA (Association of Indian Americans in North America) that Shah had set the narrative for the BJP to showcase PM Modi’s aggressive and balanced moves on the foreign policy front during the elections. He said, “Modi brought India to fifth largest economy displacing England and thus India has shown the world that we have become a bigger economy than the country that ruled us for 150 years with pride.” “These words are still creating an impact among the voters in Gujarat, with many of them speaking highly of PM Modi’s achievements on the foreign and diplomatic front,” say sources.
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Diplomats say that organising India’s Mission LiFE (Lifestyle for Environment) in Gujarat’s Kevadia a few weeks ago was also appreciated by the people of the state. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres inaugurated this event. Significantly, it was during his presence in Gujarat that the UN Secretary General rapped China for blocking the listing of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) terrorist Shahid Mahmood.
PM Modi’s ‘grand global image’ helps BJP in Gujarat
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