Rahul Gandhi won’t see a Congress victory even through binoculars, says Amit Shah

Setting the stage for assembly elections due in Madhya Pradesh, Amit Shah said since the BJP came to power at the Centre in 2014, it had formed governments in 14 states, while the Congress has lost badly in elections.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah on Friday said Rahul Gandhi will not see a Congress party victory even if he uses binoculars, and asked party workers to be prepared with crackers to celebrate a win in Karnataka on May 15.

Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah addresses party’s state-level meeting ahead of Madhya Pradesh assembly elections in Bhopal, on Friday. (Mujeeb Faruqui/HT Photo)

Shah was in Bhopal to introduce the new state BJP president, Rakesh Singh, to party workers. He also addressed a gathering of party office-bearers and public representatives from across the state.

Setting the stage for assembly elections due in Madhya Pradesh later this year, Shah said since the BJP came to power at the Centre in 2014, it had formed governments in 14 states starting with Maharashtra, while the Congress has lost badly in elections.

He said Gandhi should not even dream of winning assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, which is a BJP bastion.

Referring to the appointment of Kamal Nath as the state Congress president without naming him, Shah alleged that the person whom the Congress had appointed as its state president happened to be close to corporate houses.

Shah said the popular leadership of prime minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan notwithstanding, the assembly election has to be won on the strength of the party organisation. He urged party workers to approach every single person in the state till the date of polling to apprise the voters of the achievements of Modi-Shivraj governments and request them to vote for the BJP.

He said 65 lakh of the 1 crore party workers in Madhya Pradesh would be able to contact each and every person in the state within just five days if they started campaigning today.

Shah said the party workers were not supposed to just work for the party’s victory , they had to uproot the Congress. He asked the BJP workers to go door to door to tell people how the Congress had maligned Hindutva by coining terms such ‘Hindu terror’ and implicating people under false charges.

Reacting to Shah’s speech, leader of the Opposition Ajay Singh said people will give a befitting reply to the BJP in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and other states where assembly elections are scheduled.

Singh said Shah had omitted BJP’s humiliating defeats in elections in Punjab, Bihar and Delhi.