Ahmedabad: Union House Minister Amit Shah on Saturday mentioned that Congress chief Rahul Gandhi had been incessantly altering constituencies due to the worry of dropping elections.
“The issue just isn’t with the constituencies, however with Rahul Gandhi himself, he’ll face defeat wherever he goes,” Sha mentioned whereas addressing an election rally marketing campaign rally in Gujarat’s Bodeli.
His feedback got here a day after Gandhi filed his nomination from Congress stronghold Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh. Gandhi has determined to shift to Rae Bareli to proceed the household’s connection within the get together’s solely bastion in Uttar Pradesh.
Within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Gandhi had contested from the Amethi and Wayanad seats. Whereas he received from Wayanad, he misplaced the Amethi seat to Union minister Smriti Irani.
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“He used to contest elections from Amethi however, after dropping to Smriti Irani, he ran to Wayanad. Now, dealing with challenges in Wayanad, he has moved on to Raebareli,” Shah mentioned.
“He (Rahul) misplaced in Amethi to Smriti Irani and ran to Wayanad. Now, fearing defeat in Wayanad, he’s additionally contesting from Rae Bareli. Rahul Baba, the issue just isn’t with the seat however with you. You’ll lose Rae Bareli by an enormous margin”, mentioned Shah.
Shah additional slammed the INDIA alliance’s “rotation system” for the prime ministerial submit, urging voters to not “hand over energy to a divisive get together”.
If the INDIA alliance have been to win, they might not actually have a succesful PM candidate, Shah mentioned.
“The BJP has a transparent face. If we win, Narendra Modi might be our PM. But when the INDIA alliance wins, who would be the PM? Sharad Pawar, Mamata Banerjee, Stalin, Uddhav Thackeray, or Rahul Gandhi?”
Dismissing the thought of working a partnership agency, Shah expressed doubts over the alliance’s potential to deal with crises like COVID-19 or terrorism in Kashmir with a rotating premiership.
“Can this smug alliance preserve the nation protected after rotating the PM’s time period between them for one yr every? Will they be capable to save Kashmir from terrorists?” he requested.
Shah additional accused the Congress of trying to “divide the nation into North and South India and mentioned, “They can’t be given energy.” He additionally refuted opposition claims concerning the BJP’s stance on reservations, labelling them as “lies”.
“Modi had a full majority in 2014 and 2019. However he by no means touched the reservation meant for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Different Backward Lessons. That is Modi’s assure that until the BJP is in energy, nobody can contact reservation,” Shah mentioned.
Shah argued that this can be a query regarding India’s future, not a enterprise that the mom, son, or daughter can run in turns annually and emphasised that your entire nation has determined to assist and re-elect Narendra Modi because the Prime Minister.