Guwahati: Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched a sharp attack on Congress leader and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi in poll-bound Assam, accusing him of defaming India and targeting the country itself.
“While protesting against Prime Minister Modi and the BJP, Rahul Gandhi has now started protesting against India as well,” Shah said at a youth convention here on Sunday.
Slamming Rahul’s Parliament antics, Shah accused him of sitting on the steps of Parliament, drinking tea and eating pakoras.
“Sometimes he (Rahul Gandhi) sits at the door of Parliament and eats tea and pakoras. Does he not realise what an appropriate venue for having breakfast is? Parliament is the highest institution of our dem
ocracy. Even sitting there and protesting is not a democratic practice. But you have gone two steps beyond protesting. You are having tea and pakoras. This is defaming India across the world,” Shah said.
The Home minister, who inaugurated and laid the foundation for several major health infrastructure projects in the state in Guwahati, said Congress “legalised, formalised and normalised infiltration, but the BJP will remove each one of them from the electoral rolls… Rahul babu can rest assured that not only their names will be removed from the electoral rolls, they will also be driven out.”
Shah added that Congress bred violence, youth losses, and “corruption and polarisation by promoting infiltrators” while ignoring youth for family gain.
Asserting that BJP delivers development and protection, Shah claimed victory in next month’s election under Himanta Biswa Sarma.
“This time NDA will get largest ever mandate,” Shah said.
The 126-member Assam legislative assembly will go to polls on April 9, while counting will take place on May 4, along with three other states and one Union territory.