BJP chief: We did in 3 years what others couldn’t in 70

NEW DELHI:Confident of registering an even bigger electoral win in 2019, BJP chief Amit Shah today said “achche din (good days) are here” if seen through the eyes of people who benefitted from the “pro-people” policies of a “sensitive and decisive” NDA regime.

BJP chief Amit Shah addresses the media on the completion of 3 years of the Modi government in New Delhi. Mukesh Aggarwal

Vibha Sharma

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, May 26

Confident of registering an even bigger electoral win in 2019, BJP chief Amit Shah today said “achche din (good days) are here” if seen through the eyes of people who benefitted from the “pro-people” policies of a “sensitive and decisive” NDA regime.

Speaking on the completion of BJP-led government’s three years in office today, Shah lauded PM Narendra Modi as the “most popular leader since the Independence” and said India achieved in past three years what it could not in 70 years.

On Opposition parties putting into the government’s court the responsibility of a “consensus candidate” for the post of President, he said: “Uchit samay par vipaksh se bhi baat ki jaegi (we will speak to Opposition at the right time).”

Expressing confidence that the government would “control the situation” in the troubled Kashmir valley with the help of security forces, Shah expressed “appreciation and support” for Major Leetul Gogoi, who used a human shield to save lives during polling, for the “work he had done”.

On the recent caste violence and gangrape in Saharanpur and Jewar, respectively, Shah said the Yogi Adityanath government had tackled everything promptly. “Whether it was Jewar, Mathura or Saharanpur incidents, it has taken strong steps.”

On a query related to Prime Minister’s slogan of “achche din aane waale hain”, on which the BJP built its 2014 election campaign, Shah said the phrase had been used by “Opposition and also some media friends” to poke fun.

“But if you ask those two crore women who now have the facility of a gas stove, they will say ‘achche din aa gye hain’ (good days are here). If you ask the 4.5 crore households, a 16-year-old who would go out in open (for defecation), they will say ‘achche din aa gye hain’.

Shah said the Prime Minister in the past three years had changed the way “India thinks and also politics by weeding nepotism, corruption and appeasement out of the system”.