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10 TOP quotes from Narendra Modi's victory speech

May 16, 2014 19:20 IST

Image: Narendra Modi, India's next prime minister, addresses his first rally in Vadodara
Photographs: ANI/Twitter

On Friday, India gave its verdict and Narendra Modi it was. The prime minister-in-waiting addressed his first rally in Vadodara from where won by a whopping 5.7 lakh votes, a record margin, he claimed.  

Here are 10 takeaway quotes from the historic speech.

1. ‘Good days are upon us.’

2. ‘Every voter became Narendra Modi.’  

3. ‘I did not get an opportunity to die for the country, but I have got an opportunity to live for the country’

10 TOP quotes from Narendra Modi's victory speech

Image: Modi gestures as he arrives to seek blessings from his mother Heeraben at her residence in Gandhinaga
Photographs: Amit Dave/Reuters

4. ‘Spent just 50 minutes in Vadodara won by 5 lakh votes.’

5. ‘Benaras has voted for Modi’s silence.’

6. ‘I am Mazdoor Number 1.’

10 TOP quotes from Narendra Modi's victory speech

Image: A BJP supporter shows the party symbole, the lotus, in New Delhi
Photographs: Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters

7.‘Sab kaa saath, sab kaa vikas. This is our mantra.’ 

8. ‘Government not just for a few, it belongs to the common people.’

9. ‘Children who can barely say maa, pappa, are saying Ab ki baar Modi sarkar. This is the power of democracy.’10. ‘The media wanted me to speak since morning. But I wanted to speak to Vadodara first Vadodara has first right on me.’