Modi accuses 'vested interest group' of shielding Congress

Drawing a parallel between the 2014 polls and the 1977 elections, he said, “This government, which has downgraded the country, has to go. Let us affirm that this Government has to go democratically. We should work for a progressive BJP Government...Like 1977, 2014 will be the voice of the people.”

“This election is not about any post, but to wipe the tears of the poor. It is not the farmers, the tribal, the marginalised,” Modi said in his first address to the diaspora after being nominated as the prime ministerial candidate. 

He urged the Indian American community, in particular his supporters, to play a meaningful role in the BJP's victory.

Modi was addressing the Indian-American community at the conclusion of the two-day national convention of the Overseas Friends of BJP-USA.