Prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh cast his vote for the Lok Sabha election in the Guwahati constituency on Thursday. He flew down in a special aircraft from New Delhi and spent less than 10 minutes in the Dispur Government Higher Secondary School polling station. He was also accompanied by his wife Gursharan Kaur.
Coming out of the polling booth, Singh dismissed there was any Modi wave in the country and instead said it (the ‘wave’) was a creation of the media. “I don’t think that the country as a whole is swept by any Modi wave. The Modi wave is the creation of the media,” Singh said taking questions from mediapersons who were put in a special media enclosure temporarily constructed in the school compound. The prime minister also denied that the Congress was losing ground in the current elections. “Well, I don’t think that the Congress party is losing ground,” he said.
“I have come to Guwahati to exercise my right as a citizen of this great country. I am confident that the democratic process of the country is firmly established and I urge all citizens to cast their votes,” he added.
Source:Agencies
