Watch: Here is the slogan PM Modi asked BJP workers to raise after election victories in Gujarat, Himachal

PM Modi on Monday said that Assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh had underlined the people's acceptance of his government's reforms.

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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday accused the Congress of trying to sow the seeds of casteism in Gujarat in its "hunger for power".

He also asserted that the BJP's win in the Assembly elections had underlined the people's acceptance of his government's reforms.

Addressing BJP workers at the party headquarters, PM Modi was unsparing in his attack on the Congress and critics who, he said, could not accept his party's victory in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh.

He also returned to his plank of development and pitched for social harmony in his home state, saying that the people should forget the past and embrace each other.

An atmosphere for development had been created after the BJP came to power at the Centre in May 2014, he said, adding that nobody should derail it as his "decisive" government was working overtime to strengthen cooperative federalism and had clean intentions.

At the end of his address, PM Modi asked BJP workers to raise 'jeetega bhai jeetega, vikas hi jeetega' slogan (only development will win). Watch the video below:

#WATCH PM Modi asks BJP workers to raise slogans, 'Jeetega bhai jeetega, Vikas hi jeetega' #ElectionResults2017 pic.twitter.com/UsBPCMmtvk — ANI (@ANI) December 18, 2017

With the BJP - which recorded its sixth straight victory in Assembly elections in Gujarat - drawing its lowest tally this year, PM Modi said the victory this time was not 'samanya' (normal) but 'asamanya' (special).

There was a time when retaining power was considered a major achievement in the country, he said. But the BJP has been winning in Gujarat since 1989 on its plank of development, PM Modi added, describing it as unprecedented.

"The Congress might be visible on the ground but there were many forces at work beside it. 'Bring down the BJP once'. All sorts of conspiracies were hatched," he said.

There could be anger over the issue of development but some were making fun of it, he said, apparently targeting the Congress and Patidar leader Hardik Patel, who had run a campaign with the meme "development has gone mad" against the BJP.

The state was rife with the "poison of casteism" until 30 years ago, he said, referring to Congress rule in Gujarat, and added that BJP governments and leaders worked to remove it.

"In their hunger for power, some people tried to sow the seeds of casteism in the last few months for the elections. The people rejected it," he said.

He asked the people of his state to be more vigilant. 

(With PTI inputs)