Thu. Mar 28th, 2024
Amit Shah is happy with his post

NEW DELHI: Aiming at Rahul Gandhi, BJP president Amit Shah said that Congress has “outsourced” the Gujrat assembly polls and not promoting any local leader as the face of its election campaign.

“Congress has outsourced the Gujarat election. The party doesn’t have a leader, nor does it have a clear-cut strategy,” Shah said at an event on Tuesday.

Over the last few weeks, the Congress party’s ‘Navsarjan Yatra’ in Gujarat has been quarterbacked by party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, who is traversing through temple towns and addressing multiple rallies every day to attack the BJP in its fortress.

“Congress should clarify under whose leadership they are contesting the Gujarat election. Why haven’t they announced a candidate for the chief minister?” Shah challenged. The BJP president alleged that the Congress was resorting to schismatic politics in the state, pointing out how politicians from different social backgrounds, like Patidar leader Hardik Patel, have been flocking to it lately.

“Congress is working to divide the people of Gujarat into communal lines. This is an old habit of the Congress, to play caste-based politics but the people will no longer be fooled by them,” said Shah.

Dismissing reports of growing Congress popularity in certain parts of Gujarat, Shah asserted that the BJP will secure a landslide victory in the upcoming election.

“BJP will win more than 150 seats and once again form the government in Gujarat,” he declared.
Shah also rebutted the criticism surrounding the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and said that traders will realize within the year that the unified tax regime is an ‘aashirwad’ (blessing).

Recent voter surveys in Gujarat have predicted a comfortable victory for the BJP, with Congress and other parties trailing the saffron party by around 10 percent of the vote.

The 182-member Gujarat Assembly will go to the polls in two phases — on December 9 and 14. The counting of votes will be taken up on December 18.

By brijesh