Rahul & Priyanka will not be blamed for LS election defeat, says Amit Shah

Kushinagar (UP): 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 will not be blamed for the defeat, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Monday.

Shah said Rahul Gandhi’s people will also do a press conference post polls, saying they lost due to EVMs.

“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 here. Shah said Kharge is going to lose his job as ‘bhai behen’ (Rahul, Priyanka) will not be blamed for the defeat.

Slamming the SP and Congress, he said while PM Narendra Modi was born in the house of a backward, both Rahul and Akhilesh were born with a silver spoon and don’t know about the problems being faced by people of Purvanchal (eastern UP). “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 senior BJP leader said PM Modi has never faced any such allegation. “As chief minister and prime minister, no allegation of corruption of even 25 paisa was raised against Modi while the two “shehzade’ (Rahul-Akhilesh) were involved in corruption worth Rs 12 lakh crore,” he alleged without elaborating.

Referring to the Sahara group, Shah claimed “Akhilesh’s party used to run from Sahara’s fund. The scam was done in their (SP) regime. We have ensured a refund of people’s money and the process has started.” Sahara group firms were accused of circumventing regulations with Ponzi schemes. The group has denied the charges. Further attacking the Samajwadi Party, he claimed in the previous regime there was “one district one mafia” but now we have “one district one product” scheme to benefit people.

Shah said sugar mills were closed in the previous SP-BSP regimes while the Yogi Adityanath government has paid cane due to farmers. The senior BJP leader claimed that the Opposition has decided to make one PM every year during the five-year tenure. While accusing Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav of being involved in corruption, the senior BJP leader said Modi has never faced any such allegation.