PM Modi Interview | 'Congress had CBI & ED in 2014, they even jailed my home minister, yet ...': PM on 'match-fixing' charges

PM Narendra Modi

Prime Minister Narendra said if polls were won with the help of probe agencies and EVMs, then the Congress would have won the 2014 general election.

The PM was speaking in an exclusive interview with News18 Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi, News18 Kannada Editor, Hariprasad, and News18 Lokmat Anchor Vilas Bade.

The PM rubbished Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s claim that the BJP cannot win the Lok Sabha election without the aid of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and electronic voting machines (EVM). Earlier, Gandhi had accused the PM of trying to do "match-fixing" in the Lok Sabha polls. He had said if the BJP wins the election through this endeavour and changes the Constitution, then the whole country would be “finished”.

“The answer to the EVM claim has been given by the Supreme Court of the country. In 2014, they had ED and CBI, so why did they lose? They even put my Home Minister in jail, then why did they lose?” the PM told News18.

PM Modi said before the NDA government came to power in 2014, the “ED and CBI’s work has been done by the Congress for years''. He questioned then why the Congress did not win the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.  “You cannot fix the election of such a big country, even for a municipality you can’t fix this. Try it. Is this fixing possible? They are just fooling the world. The sad thing is that instead of asking those people, the media asks us,” said the PM.

PM Modi said for the past few days, “the people of INDI Alliance have become so disappointed that they are looking for "excuses". “Even after defeat, you need to go in front of the people. That is why I think that maybe they are already looking for all these excuses. This is probably their internal exercise,” said PM Modi.