New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi alerted newly elected NDA MPs against getting into any ministerial trap as only a few of them can be given "the responsibilities."
Modi, before he was appointed Prime Minister of India for a second term by President Ram Nath Kovind, was addressing BJP-NDA MPs and leaders at the Central Hall of Parliament.
"All those who have won are mine. It doesn't make a difference to me. Only a few people can be given responsibilities", he said.
PM Modi addressing at Central Hall Modi also advised the MPs that the names being circulated in media are just an attempt to create division, illusion, and rumours and for fulfilling their bad intentions. Adding that these are done according to some norms, so, don't be in any such illusion.
Taking a dig at media for speculating about his new Cabinet, Modi said that I am yet to see who has won or not. But there are several Narendra Modis already born in this country and who have already formed their Cabinet. If we go by the media speculation, then there would be left only a few who do not become the ministers. We start thinking that since newspapers have published our names as prospective ministers, then we will certainly become ministers.
He urged the MPs not to believe in such speculations till the swearing-in-ceremony. If you are reading or seeing it on TV that you will become a minister, call them to stop it. Say you are ruining my prestige. Ministers are not made from the pages of newspapers. Nor ministries are run from there.
He also tried to persuade newly elected MPs not to get lured by the temptation of giving 'sound bytes' to TV media. Don't know what is there in those TV mikes that people open their mouth and start saying anything. And when you speak, their shop runs for 24-48 hours but our trouble gets amplified.
PM Modi addressing at Central Hall Referring to the modern spy cameras that the journalist uses he warned the MPs that nothing in this world which is off the record. These days, you don't know which instrument is there in somebody's pocket.
"No matter how hard you work. Somewhere in a corner, someone says something and the game is over. They (media) enjoy it because it is a large group which has been taken care of by someone else for 70 years. Why will they accept us? So, our complaint is not against them. We know it is their business. We have to take care of it," said Modi.
He also added that neither people of a certain class, religion or caste make us win nor did we win because of Modi. We win only because of the people of the country. Whatever we are, we are not because of Modi. We are what we are because of the people of the country.
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