In Rajasthan, Amit Shah targets Ashok Gehlot: ‘Red diary hides his black deeds, he should quit’

Pointing to a few people who raised slogans during the event, the home minister said, “I want to tell Gehlot that you will achieve nothing by sending some people to shout slogans. If there is any shame left in him, he should resign over the ‘red diary’ issue and enter the election fray,” Shah said.

“When the Congress government was at the Centre, it did nothing for farmers. The BJP government did a lot of work for farmers and launched many schemes and the BJP is giving every farmer Rs 6,000 today. During the time of the Congress government, the kisan budget was of Rs 22,000 crore. Modi ji has increased it to 1.25 lakh crore,” said Shah.

“Friends, you have said that you will give all the seats in 2024 (to Modi ji). But before 2024, there is the election of 2023. You will give all seats in 2024 when you will change the government here in 2023,” said Shah, asking the crowd if they will once again make Modi the PM, to which they responded with ‘yes’ chants.

Shah also said that a wave of fresh energy has spread across the country with the recent Moon landing.

“At the end I want to say, be it any diary in your home, don’t keep one with it red colour, Gehlot ji will get angry,” said Shah, taking a potshot at CM Gehlot.

In recent months, ex-minister Gudha’s claim that he went to retrieve the diary on the instructions of CM Ashok Gehlot amidst income tax raids during the 2020 political crisis, and his assertion that Gehlot would have been in jail if Gudha had not got the diary out, has given the opposition BJP to corner the Congress government in the state.

According to Gudha, CM Gehlot had asked him to visit Congress leader Dharmendra Rathore — a close aide of the chief minister — and bring back the red diary.