Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah yesterday said the grand alliance of opposition parties neither has a leader nor a policy and its only agenda is to remove Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He said that Congress president Rahul Gandhi was neither acceptable as a PM candidate to other leaders of his parties, nor to the other parties that constitute the ‘Maha Gathbandhan’.
Shah was speaking in Hyderabad at the conclusion of a two-day conclave of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth wing of the BJP.
He said while Modi was working to remove poverty, the only agenda of the ‘Maha Gathbandhan’ was to remove the prime minister.
Stating that the grand alliance would have no impact on the 2019 general election, Shah said Modi would once again become the prime minister.
“2019 elections will be a challenge for all of us and for the country. May 2019 will decide the direction in which the country will head,” he told BJYM workers gathered from across the country.
He said the youth played a key role in ushering in a change in 2014, and urged BJYM workers to double their efforts in 2019 to once again make Modi the prime minister with a huge majority.
“You make 50% of the efforts. We will make the remaining 50%,” he said.
Claiming that various schemes launched by the government had helped 22 crore families, Shah appealed to BJYM workers to reach out to all these families with Modi’s message.
The BJP chief said that after the party returns to power next year, it would drive every intruder out of the country.
“From Kashmir to Kanyakumari and from Assam to Gujarat, we will throw out every intruder,” he said and alleged that the Congress and other opposition parties raised a hue and cry over BJP government in Assam identifying 40 lakh infiltrators.
BJYM president Poonam Mahajan exhorted the workers to dedicate themselves to help the BJP win next year’s elections.
Federal ministers Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, chief ministers of BJP-ruled states and top leaders of BJP addressed the conclave over the last two days.
In other developments, the Congress demanded the resignation of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh, saying that the government had no moral right to rule as it was not able to protect security forces from terrorists and Maoists.
Congress spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi attacked the central as well as the Chhattisgarh governments for failing to curb terrorism and Maoism.
“There are innumerable parameters to show that neither the central government nor the state government can deal with such extremism. Be it Jammu and Kashmir, be it Chhattisgarh Naxalism or be it the entire Naxal belt beyond Chhattisgarh,” he said at a press conference in New Delhi.
BJP president Amit Shah gestures during the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) national convention in Hyderabad yesterday.
