Amethi (UP): BJP’s top leaders descended on “Nehru-Gandhi family bastion” Amethi on Tuesday, with party chief Amit Shah questioning Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi over development in his Lok Sabha constituency and slamming him for mocking Gujarat’s development.
Shah, union minister Smriti Irani and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath targeted Gandhi here while he was attacking the Union government in Gujarat, the poll-bound home state of the BJP chief and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Addressing a public meeting here, Shah said Modi and Adiyanath will ensure all-round development of Amethi as also rest of the state.
“You have trusted a family for 60 years, now trust BJP and Modi and you will not feel betrayed,” Shah told the people of Amethi where Irani lost to Gandhi in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
Amethi is known all over the world as a “Nehru-Gandhi family bastion” but there has been no development, he said. He said there were two models of development here — a “Nehru-Gandhi model” and the “Modi model”.
Responding to Gandhi’s repeated posers as to what the BJP had done during its rule, Shah said, “the Congress ruled the country for 70 years. I want to ask you that you have been MP here for a long time but why is there no collector’s office, TB hospital and Akashwani’s FM here? Erosion of land due to Gomti river has not been stopped.” He added that the BJP has “given a prime minister who speaks”.
Slamming Gandhi for questioning development in Gujarat, Shah said, “He is mocking at the development in Gujarat. I want to ask ‘Shahzada’ of the Congress as to what your three generations have given to Amethi? You sought account of our past three years but people of Amethi are taking account of works done here by your past three generations.”
“Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will develop UP,” he asserted.(PTI)
