Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned the sixth Ramnath Goenka Lecture in New Delhi into a full-blown victory speech on Monday, declaring the BJP-led NDA’s crushing triumph in Bihar a historic referendum that has permanently buried opposition parties peddling freebies and empty slogans. “The results have once again taught a lesson on the extraordinarily high aspirations and ambitions of India’s people today,” he thundered, adding that voters now trust only those political forces that live in “emotional mode” for public service 24×7 instead of flipping to cynical “election mode” every five years.

In a barely veiled swipe at the INDIA bloc’s revdi culture and the RJD-Congress promise-heavy manifesto that spectacularly backfired, Modi asserted that the BJP wins because it never treats welfare as an election-season gimmick. “People can smell fake intentions from miles away. They reward only those who wake up every morning thinking of development and sleep every night thinking of development,” he said, earning a standing ovation from the packed hall of journalists, editors, and intellectuals.

He went on to challenge every state government — whether BJP-ruled or run by regional satraps — to transform India into a giant arena of healthy competition. “Organise national contests on ease of doing business, on who attracts the maximum investment, on who builds the best infrastructure fastest. Let states race to the top instead of dragging each other down,” Modi urged, presenting cooperative federalism as the new rocket fuel for Viksit Bharat by 2047.

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Modi painted a picture of India as the world’s lone bright spot amid global gloom, boasting that despite wars, recessions, and supply-chain chaos elsewhere, the country is clocking nearly 7% GDP growth and emerging not just as an economic powerhouse but as a “global model of hope.” “The world is restless to learn from us now, not just invest in us,” he declared, insisting that India’s hunger to become a developed nation is stronger than any external headwind.

With the Bihar victory still fresh and assembly polls looming in other states, Modi’s lecture doubled as a nationwide warning to the opposition: the era of winning elections by promising the moon is dead; only those who deliver on the ground, every single day, will survive the new, unforgiving Indian voter.

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