Shah alleged that welfare schemes started by the previous government “vanished” after Gehlot came to power and added “only a magician can do this”, alluding to the CM’s past
JAIPUR, Nov 7: Addressing campaign rallies in Rajasthan’s Kuchaman, Makrana and Parbatsar in Nagaur ahead of the November 25 assembly polls, the senior BJP leader said the Congress government in the state is the “most corrupt” and has crossed “all limits of appeasement”, and appealed to people to uproot it.
He also accused the Congress of insulting Other Backward Classes (OBCs).
He cited the killing of Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal, various communal incidents, illegal mining and recruitment exam paper leaks to target the state government.
Shah said the Congress is a family-based party and can never do any good to Rajasthan.
He alleged that Sonia Gandhi wants to make her son the prime minister and Ashok Gehlot wants to make his son the chief minister but they are unable to “launch” their sons, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Chandrayaan and the tricolour was unfurled on the moon.
He said the Congress insulted OBCs.
In an apparent reference to a controversy triggered by Rahul Gandhi’s remark in 2019, he accused the Congress leader of insulting backward class leaders of his own party by labelling people of Modi’s caste as thieves.
Referring to Chief Minister Gehlot’s previous association with magic, Shah said he has made law and order, electricity in rural areas and schemes launched by the previous BJP government led by Vasundhara Raje vanish.
“Only a magician can do this,” he said. In his early days, Gehlot briefly assisted his father in his magic shows.
Shah said some communists he had met at the airport told him that they would not go for campaigning in Rajasthan because the colour of their party flag is red.
“They told me that Gehlot gets angry on seeing the colour red,” Shah said, in the context of a “red diary” which, according to the allegation of terminated minister Rajendra Gudha, contains details of illegal financial transactions of the chief minister.
He said that Gehlot should have resigned instead of taking action against the minister.
He accused the Congress of stalling the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya for 70 years.
Prime Minister Modi is also going to attend the temple’s consecration on January 22, he said and appealed to people to book tickets for their travel to Ayodhya on that day.
“Rahul Baba used to ask when the temple will be completed and now the date has been fixed and he has gone silent. Rahul Baba would not come but you people book your tickets and come to Ayodhya on January 22,” he said.
Shah also alleged that the Congress can neither keep the country safe nor bring glory, whereas Prime Minister Modi has done the work of taking the national flag to the moon.
India launched a spacecraft on the lunar surface earlier this year, becoming the fourth country to achieve the feat.
He said that terrorists from Pakistan carried out attacks in Uri and Pulwama and within 10 days, surgical strike and air strike were done because it was Modi’s rule and not Congress’ rule.
Referring to various communal incidents and the murder of tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur, the BJP leader said the Gehlot government worked to ban Ram Navmi and Mahaveeer Jayanti processions but gave the PFI permission to take out rally in Kota.
He said that Kanhaiya Lal was beheaded in broad daylight in Udaipur.
Shah said that the Congress government has no courage to punish the culprits. He said that communal incidents were the result of the appeasement policy of the Congress government and therefore such incidents happened in the Congress rule.
He gave a guarantee to people of the state that tap water will be provided to all households in two-and-a-half years after the BJP forms the state government. (PTI)