‘Modi messiah of the poor’: Shah launches BJP campaign in MP

He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had become a “messiah of the poor”.

Targeting the Congress, Shah said that when the UPA government was in power at the Centre, “Every other day, anyone from Pakistan…any Alia-Malia-Jamalia, would come, fire bullets and throw bombs, and leave.”

He sought to draw a contrast between the UPA government and the current NDA government under PM Modi, pointing out that after the terror attacks in Uri and Pulwama, “Within 15 days, our Army did a surgical strike and an airstrike” in Pakistan.

Shah also praised the Modi government for its decision to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution, which had given special status to Jammu and Kashmir. He also criticised the Congress on the issue.

“The Congress kept Article 370 in its lap like its own child for 70 years,” he said.

He also alleged that the Congress had delayed the construction of the Ram Temple.

On the issue of poverty, Shah claimed that the Congress “did nothing for the poor” in all their years in power, but that Modi had become a “messiah of the poor” because of the work done after the BJP came to power.

Shah also took aim at former Congress chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh, Kamal Nath and Digvijaya Singh, accusing them of corruption and bad governance.

He said that the “double engine” government, with the BJP in power at the Centre and the state, would take Madhya Pradesh to new heights.