Vote in record numbers: Narendra Modi`s appeal to voters

Zee Media Bureau/Ritesh K Srivastava

New Delhi: BJP`s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Thursday appealed to nearly 11 crores voters who are eligible to cast their votes for 91 Lok Sabha seats spread across the country in the third phase of the crucial Lok Sabha polls to exercise their franchise and vote in record numbers. The BJP leader tweeted this morning, “: All those voting today in 91 Lok Sabha seats, 70 seats for Odisha Vidhan Sabha & by-election in Maharashtra should vote in record numbers.”

All those voting today in 91 Lok Sabha seats, 70 seats for Odisha Vidhan Sabha & by-election in Maharashtra should vote in record numbers.

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 10, 2014

The BJP leader had yesterday created a flutter by clearing the air on his marital status. In an affidavit submitted along with his nomination papers filed Wednesday for Vadodara Lok Sabha seat, Bharatiya Janata Party`s prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi declared himself as a married man and revealed that his wife`s name is Jashodaben. In the affidavit submitted to the Election Commission, Modi for the first time stated that he is married. So far, Modi used to leave the column of spouse which is to be filled in an affidavit as blank. He had kept the column as blank in 2012 Assembly elections as well. However, for the 2014 Lok Sabha election affidavit, in the column where he has to declare assets in the name of his wife, Modi has written that he has no information on it. Though he had filed the nomination papers this morning, the Vadodara district election authority put the affidavit on the display board of the Collectorate at midnight.