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DEHRADUN: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday accused Congress of “appeasement politics”, claiming that when he visited Uttarakhand earlier during the party’s tenure, “people had permission to block a national highway fornamaz”.
Kicking off BJP’s campaign in poll-bound Uttarakhand at a public rally in Dehradun, Shah said, “When I came to Uttarakhand earlier, during the Congress tenure, my convoy was stuck in a traffic jam and some people told me that there is permission to block a national highway for namaz on Friday.” He also alleged that the Congress government didn’t carry out restoration works at Kedarnath “for fear of losing its vote bank”.
He said: “Congress is synonymous with corruption, scam and appeasement. It can neither work for the poor nor give good administration. The party has always failed to fulfill promises made to people…BJP had fulfilled 85% of the promises in its manifesto since 2017…In this period, works worth Rs 85,000 crore have been started in Uttarakhand”. Shah challenged former Uttarakhand CM and Congress campaign committee chairman in the state Harish Rawat to an open debate. “I will send members of our youth wing for the debate. He (Rawat) needs to tell what was the contribution of the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government in the welfare of Uttarakhand for a period of 10 years,” said Shah. Rawat had recently sought to be relieved as the in charge of party affairs in Punjab to focus on Uttarakhand where he claimed the party was heading towards a “definite win”.
Shah said Rawat should “watch his sting video from 2016 again”. In 2016, Rawat was the CM when a news channel released a sting video in which he is purportedly seen negotiating “bribes” to win the support of some rebel Congress MLAs in the house for a trust vote scheduled later. Lauding the efforts of CM Pushkar Singh Dhami, Shah said the former has played a commendable role in rescue operations following the recent rains in Uttarakhand.
Shah also pointed out that PM Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Kedarnath on October 5. “He will inaugurate the statue of Adi Shankaracharya during his visit to the shrine,” he added. Shah held a core-committee meeting of BJP at party headquarters. Later, he left for Haridwar where he attended the golden jubilee celebrations of Shanti Kunj Ashram and held a closed-door meeting with Juna akhara’s acharya mahamandaleshwar Swami Avdheshanand Giri.
Shah said BJP had rolled out the New Education Policy, allowing students to learn in their mother tongue and said “PM Modi’s look during his visit to Varanasi’s Vishwanath temple in 2014 with tripund tilak (three lined) and uttariya (scarf) heralded a change in the society.”
Inputs by Sheo S Jaiswal
Kicking off BJP’s campaign in poll-bound Uttarakhand at a public rally in Dehradun, Shah said, “When I came to Uttarakhand earlier, during the Congress tenure, my convoy was stuck in a traffic jam and some people told me that there is permission to block a national highway for namaz on Friday.” He also alleged that the Congress government didn’t carry out restoration works at Kedarnath “for fear of losing its vote bank”.
He said: “Congress is synonymous with corruption, scam and appeasement. It can neither work for the poor nor give good administration. The party has always failed to fulfill promises made to people…BJP had fulfilled 85% of the promises in its manifesto since 2017…In this period, works worth Rs 85,000 crore have been started in Uttarakhand”. Shah challenged former Uttarakhand CM and Congress campaign committee chairman in the state Harish Rawat to an open debate. “I will send members of our youth wing for the debate. He (Rawat) needs to tell what was the contribution of the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government in the welfare of Uttarakhand for a period of 10 years,” said Shah. Rawat had recently sought to be relieved as the in charge of party affairs in Punjab to focus on Uttarakhand where he claimed the party was heading towards a “definite win”.
Shah said Rawat should “watch his sting video from 2016 again”. In 2016, Rawat was the CM when a news channel released a sting video in which he is purportedly seen negotiating “bribes” to win the support of some rebel Congress MLAs in the house for a trust vote scheduled later. Lauding the efforts of CM Pushkar Singh Dhami, Shah said the former has played a commendable role in rescue operations following the recent rains in Uttarakhand.
Shah also pointed out that PM Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Kedarnath on October 5. “He will inaugurate the statue of Adi Shankaracharya during his visit to the shrine,” he added. Shah held a core-committee meeting of BJP at party headquarters. Later, he left for Haridwar where he attended the golden jubilee celebrations of Shanti Kunj Ashram and held a closed-door meeting with Juna akhara’s acharya mahamandaleshwar Swami Avdheshanand Giri.
Shah said BJP had rolled out the New Education Policy, allowing students to learn in their mother tongue and said “PM Modi’s look during his visit to Varanasi’s Vishwanath temple in 2014 with tripund tilak (three lined) and uttariya (scarf) heralded a change in the society.”
Inputs by Sheo S Jaiswal
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