Congress has launched ‘Ghuspaithiya Bachao Yatra’ to protect vote bank: Shah

Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday, while terming Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ongoing ‘Vote Adhikar Yatra’ in Bihar as ‘Ghuspaithiya Bachao Yatra’, criticised the alleged abusive language used against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother apparently at one of the rallies in the state.

He called the yatra as an attempt to protect Congress’ vote bank of infiltrators (ghuspaithiya).

“The kind of negative and low-level politics, which Rahul Gandhi has initiated, was visible when in one of the rallies during his ‘Ghuspaithiya Bachao Yatra’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother was abused. I criticise this kind of low-level discourse from the core of my heart,” Shah said in Guwahati while inaugurating the new Raj Bhavan complex there.

The Union Home Minister said that over the years, several Congress leaders, right from Sonia Gandhi to Mani Shankar Aiyar, have abused Modi, yet whenever they have done so, the BJP has only become stronger and has been winning all the elections.

“Just to negate their electoral losses, the Congress has launched its ‘Ghuspaithiya Bachao Yatra’. It is only aimed at protecting their vote bank, which consists of ‘ghuspaithiya’ (intruders). Tell me if intruders infiltrate the voter list, then how will the nation remain secure?” Shah sought to know while attacking the Congress.

Gandhi is currently on a statewide Vote Adhikar Yatra in Bihar to highlight the issue of “vote theft”.