Infiltrators will be thrown out if BJP returns to power: Shah

Jitendra K Shrivastava
Tribune News Service
Ranchi, May 8

BJP president Amit Shah today promised that infiltrators would be thrown out of the country if the saffron party was re-voted to power as the country’s defence was its top priority.

Addressing a rally in Dhanbad in Jharkhand, Shah said: “The infiltrators would be picked up right from Jammu and Kashmir to Kanyakumari and from Kolkata to Katchh, and will be thrown out of the country if BJP is voted back to power at the Centre. In Manmohan-Sonia government that ruled for 10 years, Aalia-Malia-Jamalia intruded and beheaded our jawans but the then PM remained silent. But for the Modi government, national security is the top priority.”

Attacking Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, Shah said: “Modiji brought NRC in Assam and earmarked 40 lakh infiltrators who are like termites. But when it reached Rajya Sabha, Rahul baba and company kicked off crying out for the sake of human rights. Where was this concern when these infiltrators killed our jawans and their wives suffered?”

Shah reiterated that the BJP wanted to remove Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir but the Congress wanted to remove sedition laws. “I want to ask Rahul that if people are caught conspiring against India, they will be sent to jail under which law?” he said.

“On one hand, you have Modi, who did not take a single leave in 20 years. On the other, you have Rahul, who goes on long vacation to places, leaving his mother worried about his whereabouts,” he said. He claimed “what the Modi government did for the welfare of the poor in five years, the Congress could not achieve in 55 years”.

He claimed that the UPA government had given Rs 55,253 crore for the development of Jharkhand, whereas the Modi government had allocated Rs 3,07,523 crore in just past five years. “Along with this, several other central-sponsored schemes were also launched for the state’s development,” he said.

The BJP has fielded Pashupati Nath Singh against mahagathbandhan’s Kirti Azad who recently joined the Congress.