With half of polling for the Lok Sabha elections are over, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the leaders of the Opposition parties have a long face as they know they will get “ zero battey sannata ”.
Addressing a public meeting at Bundelkhand in Uttar Pradesh, he played on the name of a Hindi comedy film ‘ Nil Battey Sannata ’ (zero divided by zero equals nothing), a slang for good for nothing.
“The Opposition parties know the outcome. In the first half of campaigning, they kept abusing Mr.Modi, but it did not materialise. So, now in the remaining half, they will keep abusing the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM),” Mr. Modi said. His remarks came against the backdrop of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav complaining that the EVMs were malfunctioning across the country during the third phase of polling on April 23.
