4 min readLucknowMay 28, 2024 05:20 AM IST
First published on: May 27, 2024 at 10:25 PM IST
Union Home Minister Amit Shah claimed on Monday that the bhai-behen (brother and sister) duo of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will not take responsibility for their Congress’ defeat in the Lok Sabha elections and it instead will be the party’s national president Mallikarjun Kharge and the electronic voting machines (EVMs) who will be blamed for the electoral loss.
The Congress president, Shah claimed, will even lose his job and that “Rahul Gandhi’s people” will also hold a press conference after the polls, saying they lost due to EVMs.
Addressing an election rally in the Kushinagar Lok Sabha constituency of Uttar Pradesh, he said, “The Congress will get only 40 seats while the Samajwadi Party will get four. The SP is running on ‘Sahara funds’ as it was during their party’s regime that the Sahara (Group) was allowed to deceive people.”
The country, the Union Home Minister asserted, has decided that Narendra Modi will again be the Prime Minister for the next 5 years and even beyond.
He added, “Kharge sahab, understand this. The burden of the loss will not fall on the brother and the sister. It will fall on you and you will lose your job (as Congress president).”
“On the one hand, there is Narendra Modi, who was born in a ‘most backward’ family and took the country ahead while there are two “shehjade” (Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav) born with silver spoons in their mouth on the other. They do not understand the problems of the Purvanchal region. Will he (Rahul) be able to solve the issues of Purvanchal?” he asked.
“The two do not like the weather of this country and that is why Rahul baba leaves for Bangkok, Thailand, every six months. On the other hand, Modi has not taken a single leave in the last 23 years,” he claimed.
The people of Purvanchal have to make a choice between these two, Shah added.
The Home Minister, who also addressed rallies in Ballia and Chandauli, referred to the INDIA alliance, asking the gathering “to imagine who would be the prime minister of the ghamandia gathbandhan (arrogant alliance). “Will it be Sharad Pawar, Mamata Banerjee, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Uddhav Thackerey or Rahul Gandhi?” he asked.
Maintaining that the election is between those who fired on “kar sevaks” and those who constructed the Ram Temple, Shah asked the public if Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) belonged to India or not.
The Congress, he said, was creating fear that one should not ask for the territory for fear of an atom bomb.
“The POK belongs to India, and we will get it back,” he said.
The “one district-one mafia” scheme during the SP regime has been turned into the “one district-one product” by the BJP government, he claimed.
Shah said the sugar mills were closed in the previous SP-BSP regimes while the Yogi Adityanath government paid cane dues to farmers.
He told the gathering, “If you people make them (opposition) win, they will take away reservation of Dalits, backwards and tribals and give to Muslims…They did the same in Karnataka, Hyderabad and Bengal, but the HC did not allow it. Muslim reservation cannot be given constitutionally.”
“After Modi came to power, they did Uri and Pulwama after which surgical and air strikes were done in their territory,” he added.
— With PTI inputs
Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a public meeting for Lok Sabha elections, in Kushinagar (PTI Photo) 
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