4:46 a.m. ET, May 12, 2019
Views from the street: Modi praised for actions after the Pulwama attack
From CNN's Swati Gupta
Nalini Prasad said Modi has taken India to new heights on the world stage
From CNN's Swati Gupta
Nalini Prasad, 68, a housewife from the constituency of Wazir Nagar in New Delhi praises Prime Minister Narendra Modi's
actions following a suicide attack in the Kashmiri district of Pulwama that killed 40 Indian soldiers in February.
"Modi has done a lot of work for the country. The biggest things were the surgical strikes. No one has the guts to do it before but he did it. The action that he took after the Pulwama attack. No one had ever dared to do anything like that," says Prasad.
Following the Pulwama attack, Modi
launched airstrikes on what he alleged was a terrorist training camp across India's de facto border with Pakistan. Pakistan disputes this claim.
"Because of Narendra Modi, the image of India in the world is being taken to new heights," says Prasad.
She says Modi has done a lot to improve the living situation of many people.
"Bathrooms in every home, people were given money to build homes and the cleanliness is so much -- not just in a few places but everywhere," she says. "There is no one like him because he has risen from the poor. He was never rich. He knows the pain of the poor. He is not selfish. I have faith that the BJP government will come back."