Opposition suffering from 'Modi phobia': Shah
November 19, 2018 16:17
The Opposition is suffering from the 'Narendra Modi phobia', Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah said on Monday.
Addressing
a rally in Narsinghpur, Madhya Pradesh, ahead of the November 28
assembly election, Shah asked the Congress to give an account of what
the four generations of the Nehru-Gandhi family did when they ruled the
country.
"The Opposition is suffering from
Narendra Modi- phobia. They just want to get rid of Modi from the prime
minister's post, while we want to get rid of poverty, insecurity and air
pollution among others," Shah said.
The BJP chief said the Modi government launched 129 developmental schemes in four years.
"Give an account of what the four generations (of Nehru-Gandhi family) did when they ruled the country," he said.
"In
a recent rally, (Congress chief) Rahul Gandhi uttered Modi's name 44
times in his 22-minute speech. I am wondering whether he is campaigning
for the BJP or the Congress," Shah said, in remarks laced with sarcasm.
He also lauded the Centre for the Army's surgical strike on terror launchpads across the border post the Uri attack in 2016.
"When
the Uri terror attack took place, the entire country was angry. Modi
ordered surgical strikes and made India the third country in the world
after the US and Israel who have avenged killings of its soldiers," he
said.
Shah alleged that former prime minister
Manmohan Singh had left the Indian economy at ninth position in the
world in 2014, which, he said, the BJP raised to sixth position.
"By
the time counting of these polls is done, India would have surpassed
the UK to become the fifth-largest economy in the world," he added. -- PTI