Vote for BJP as it defended nation against terror: Shah

Our Correspondent
Patna, May 6

BJP chief Amit Shah today said the BJP should not be voted for its development works such as road infrastructure growth, increased electricity reach and distribution of gas connections among the poor, but for its efforts to defend the country as PM Narendra Modi did with airstrikes on terrorist camps in Balakot.

Addressing a rally in Bettiah in West Champaran, Shah said: “BJP should be voted for its stand to curb terrorism, because it defended the country by ravaging terrorist camps inside Pakistan by carrying out airstrikes.”

He attacked National Conference’s Omar Abdullah who wanted a separate Prime Minister for Kashmir. “Abdullah wants two PMs in India — one in Kashmir and another for the rest of the country as he wants to separate Kashmir out of India. Whether BJP forms its government or not, Modi becomes PM or not, but our workers (BJP) would not allow anyone to take Kashmir away from India,” he said.

Slamming Congress president Rahul Gandhi over his foreign trips, Shah said: “Rahul baba leaves India for his holiday if the mercury rises here and his mother Sonia ji goes after him. But it is Modi who toils 18 hours a day for the development of the country. Congress and its next five generations ruled in India for 70 years but they did nothing.”

Reckoning development schemes initiated by Modi, Shah said: “The Modi government constructed over 8 crore toilets for women, 2.5 crore houses for poor, 2.5 crore electricity connections and it covered 50 crore poor under Ayushman Bharat health scheme that never happened in the past 70 years.”