New Delhi: Describing corruption as a social evil, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said, at the national executive meeting of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), that there was a need to bring transparency in political funding and the party is in favour of electoral reforms.

During the speech, Modi also said that demonetisation was an act against corruption because unregulated flow of cash strengthens benami property. The prime minister further said that the poor and financially weaker sections supported the demonetisation decision taken by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government.

“Poor and poverty have never been a means for vote bank politics for BJP. The financially weaker section is not a means to win elections. To serve poor is to serve god. The government is working to improve the quality of life of the poor," said union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad who briefed media on the speech of prime minister at the second and concluding day of the party’s national executive.

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Modi also said that financially weaker sections had the strength to fight against poverty and during the 50 days of demonetisation, the entire country witnessed the strength of the Indian society to fight against corruption. “The society had the determination and inner strength to fight against evils within the society," Prasad quoted Modi.

The prime minister also told the party workers that the conditions in the five poll-bound states was in favour of BJP and NDA. Assembly elections are due in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Punjab and Manipur.

The polls are crucial for the BJP because it is in direct contest with its arch rival Congress party in Goa, Punjab and Uttarakhand while the party is trying to regain power in Uttar Pradesh after a gap of 14 years.

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