BJP president Amit Shah on Monday had said that the sole motive of Opposition is to remove PM Modi and are suffering from the ‘Narendra Modi phobia’.
Shah was addressing a rally in Madhya Pradesh on Monday where he attacked the Opposition and said that while the BJP is looking to rid the country of poverty, pollution and other problems, Congress and other parties only wish to remove PM Modi.
“The Opposition is suffering from Narendra Modi- phobia. They just want to remove Modi from the prime minister’s post, while we want to get rid of poverty, insecurity and air pollution among others,” Shah said.
Ahead of the November 28 assembly elections in the BJP-ruled state, Shah again questioned the Congress to give an account of what the forefathers of Rahul Gandhi had done for the country when they ruled it.
Questioning the Congress as to what they did in their four generations of Nehru-Gandhi rule, the BJP president said, “BJP has launched 129 developmental schemes in four years. The Congress should give an account of what the four generations (of Nehru-Gandhi family) did when they ruled the country”.
Mocking Congress President Rahul Gandhi, Shah said, “In a recent rally, Rahul Gandhi uttered Modi’s name 44 times in his 22-minute speech. I wonder whether he is campaigning for the BJP or the Congress”.
The BJP president also praised the Modi government for the 2016 surgical strikes.
“During the Uri terror attack , the entire country was angry. The PM ordered surgical strikes and made India the third country in the world after the US and Israel who have avenged killings of its soldiers,” he said.
Further targeting former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Shah said that he had left the Indian economy at ninth position in the world in 2014, which, the BJP has raised to sixth position.
” India would have surpassed the UK to become the fifth-largest economy in the world by the time the counting of votes is done for the assembly polls,” he added.
The 230 assembly constituencies in Madhya Pradesh will go to polls next week.