BJP Will Win Rajasthan Elections Despite Lynchings: Amit Shah

“The BJP had won elections when the Akhlaq issue happened,” said Amit Shah in Rajasthan.

BJP President Amit Shah said the Congress had stooped low in order to win seats.

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BJP president Amit Shah Tuesday, 11 September, asked party workers to sweat for victory in the coming Rajasthan Assembly election, adding that issues related to lynchings and ‘award wapsi’ are raked up during the polls.

He claimed the Congress has tried to create a state of confusion in the country, and referred to lynching of Mohammed Akhlaq in Dadri over alleged cow slaughter and the 2015 protest in which a group of writers returned their awards.

During elections, issues like Akhlaq or `award wapsi’ come up. The BJP had won elections when the Akhlaq issue and award wapsi happened and the party will win this time too even if they (Congress) bring up some other issue

Amit Shah in Jaipur

Shah asked them to work hard for winning the elections scheduled later in 2018 without bothering about who would be the chief minister or a minister in the next government.

The party has already announced that Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje would be the CM candidate again in Rajasthan.

“The results from the three major states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh will set the trend for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections,” he said at a meeting here during his one-day Jaipur trip.

“The BJP’s victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections will pave the way for party’s rule for the next 50 years,” Shah said told BJP workers at “Shakti Kendra Sammelan.” “The assembly elections are a trailer for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and you need to shed more sweat in the field to ensure a thumping victory,” he said at the Birla auditorium, where he was addressing local bodies’ representatives.

Shah said the workers should ask people what they felt about having Congress president Rahul Gandhi as prime minister, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as external affairs minister and Samajwadi Party's Mulayam Singh Yadav as defence minister.

Shah said every party worker should cover at least five villages till the elections and tell people about the work done by the government, like the surgical strike against Pakistan and the increase in minimum support price for farm produce.

This is Shah's third visit since July to the poll-bound state ruled by the party.

(With inputs from PTI)