New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday, that some people in Delhi want to teach me lesson in democracy. He also said there are people in Delhi who always and taunt and insult me. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched virtually “Ayushman Bharat” Scheme for health insurance coverage to all residents of the union territory.

In his speech on the occasion Modi reacted on the allegations of Rahul Gandhi’s against him, Rahul Gandhi alleged that there was “No Democracy in India” and that those who stood up against the PM were labeled terrorists even if it were Mohan Bhagwat. I want to show them Jammu and Kashmir DDC polls as an example of democracy,” PM Modi said after launching the Ayushman Bharat scheme for health insurance coverage to all residents of the union territory.

Modi also said “Some political forces keep lecturing on democracy but see their duplicity and hollowness. The party that rules in Puducherry hasn’t conducted local body elections despite the Supreme Court’s order, whereas Jammu and Kashmir held Panchayat-level polls within one year after becoming a union territory.”  PM said the recent local body election in Jammu and Kashmir “strengthened roots of democracy” and congratulated voters for exercising their franchise in the eight-phase election.

In the first-ever District Development Council (DDC) polls across 20 districts in Jammu and Kashmir, the Farooq Abdullah-led Gupkar alliance, along with the Congress, won in 13 districts. The BJP won in six districts in Jammu.

“I would like to congratulate the people of Jammu and Kashmir for strengthening democracy. I saw how the young and the old reached the voting booths in the District Development Council (DDC) polls. The people of Jammu and Kashmir strengthened the roots of democracy in the DDC polls,” Prime Minister said. The BJP, after winning for the first time in Kashmir, said “the lotus has bloomed” in the Valley.