Win over the poor to win 2017 assembly elections: Modi to BJP workers

"My government's priority is to change their quality of life," Modi said.

Latest News -  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday exhorted BJP workers to be the ambassadors of the government and reach out to the people at the grassroots with his "pro-poor" schemes ahead of the February-March assembly polls in five states, including in politically significant Uttar Pradesh.

Addressing the BJP National Executive meet here, Modi said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) doesn't see poor and underprivileged as vote banks because for the party "service to poor is like serving God", according to Law and Justice and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who briefed the media on the Prime Minister's closed door address.

"The poor aren't means for the BJP to win elections, and the party doesn't see them through prism of vote bank politics. My government's priority is to change their quality of life," Modi said.

Prasad said Modi emphasised on the importance of reaching out to the people at the booth level and called on party workers to educate the poor and marginalised sections of the society about the various welfare schemes launched by the union government.

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