Rahul & Priyanka will not be blamed for LS election defeat, says Amit Shah
The BJP leader predicts Congress president Kharge will lose his job post-election
KUSHINAGAR (UP): Stepping up the campaign with greater thrust for the seventh and last phase of polling in the middle of sweltering heat, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will lose his job after the Lok Sabha poll results are announced on June 4 but Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will not be blamed for the party’s defeat.
Shah said Rahul Gandhi’s people will also do a press conference post polls, saying they lost due to EVMs. He was addressing election rallies in Ballia and Chandauli.“I have the details of the first five phases. In five phases of the Lok Sabha polls, PM Modi has crossed 310 seats. Rahul will not cross 40 and Akhilesh Yadav will not get even 4 seats on June 4,” he said at an election rally in Kushinagar. Shah said Kharge will lose his job as “bhai behen” (Rahul and Priyanka) will not be blamed for the defeat. Slamming the SP and the Congress, he said while PM Modi was born in the house of a backward, both Rahul and Akhilesh were born with a silver spoon and do not know about the problems being faced by the people of Purvanchal region of U.P. “They did not like the weather of the country. Rahul used to go to Thailand on leave every
six months. They did not tolerate the heat of Purvanchal. While PM Modi has not taken a single leave in his tenure,” he said. While accusing Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav of being involved in corruption, the star campaigner of BJP said Modi has never faced any such allegation. Attacking the SP, Shah claimed in the previous regime there was “one district one mafia” but now we have “one district one product” scheme to benefit the people.
Shah said the sugar mills were closed in the previous SP-BSP regimes while the Yogi Adityanath government has paid sugarcane dues to the farmers.
He told the gathering, “If you people make them (opposition) win, they will take away reservation of Dalits, backwards and tribals and give to Muslims .... They did the same in Karnataka, Hyderabad and Bengal, but the HC did not allow it. Muslim reservation cannot be given constitutionally.”