Amit Shah also said that Nitish Kumar wouldn't leave the NDA.
Unperturbed by recent bypoll reverses in Bihar and UP, BJP president Amit Shah told a news channel that BJP and NDA will come back with a bigger majority in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
He told Times Now: “Elections are quite far off but I can assure you that we, both NDA and BJP, will get more seats than what we managed in 2014 and return to form the government.”
On the potential tie-up between UP rivals BSP and SP, Amit Shah said they had enough time to prepare for the challenge.
He doubted Rahul Gandhi’s attempts to bring political change after becoming Congress President as he said: “I don’t believe the Congress president can bring about a change in political phases. One political phase has already been decided in the country. This country has moved away from the politics of caste, nepotism and appeasement. Now, politics of performance has begun under the leadership of Narendra Modi. Now, no matter what the Congress president says, this phase cannot be changed.”
He said PM Narendra Modi will stick to Varanasi as his Lok Sabha constituency. “Yes he will contest from Varanasi. There is no question of fighting from any other place, and let me tell you we will come back with the same majority.”
He also denied that BJP would be affected by TDP’s exit from NDA stating that perhaps fighting alone would help BJP in some states.
Speaking about JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar: “Look, all these things (change of political alignments) keep happening and if you said that he changes his ways with the changing winds, then I would like to tell you that he will never leave this alliance because the ball is in our court.”
He also spoke about Rahul Gandhi’s jibes about PM Modi ‘helping’ the likes of Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi and Vijay Mallya stating that the public wouldn’t be swayed by his arguments asking: “Can Rahul Gandhi prove the involvement of even a single minister of the BJP government in any scam? During UPA, the courts, the CAG came out with their observations.”
Speaking about BJP’s bypoll losses, he pointed out that after Rahul became party president there were polls in Gujarat, Himachal, Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya and everywhere they had suffered losses. He also pointed out that Congress had lost its deposits in Phulpur and Gorakhpur, and lost one seat in Bihar.
He also spoke about the issue of Karnataka government giving minority status to Lingayats: “People of Karnataka see through all this. If they really had to accord that status to Lingayats, why didn’t they do it earlier when they were in power? The UPA had rejected it.”
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