Dealers would run India if grand alliance voted to power: Amit Shah

Yash Goyal
Jaipur, February 18

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the only strong leader capable of running the country, Bharatiya Janata Party national president Amit Shah said on Monday as the battle for the country’s seat gets fiercer with nearing elections.  

Shah, who was addressing BJP’s booth-level workers and functionaries of Jaipur-Rural, Jaipur and Sikar LS constituencies at party's Shakti Kendra Sammelan at Suraj Maidan, said Modi would respond befittingly to perpetrators of the dastardly attack at Pulwama that killed 40 CRPF troopers, five of them from Rajasthan.

“Prime Minister Modi’s has a strong political will. He’ll give them a 'munh tod jawab' (befitting reply) to perpetrators, and BJP has zero tolerance to terrorism ".

Shah also ran down the opposition alliance saying it was an alliance of “greed” that had several prime ministerial candidates but no firm leadership.

"I ask Rahul Baba, who is the leader of the grand alliance, what are the principles and policies of gathbandhan (the grand alliance). It went unanswered", Shah said.

"Their (alliance partners) sole aim of forming such a grand alliance is ‘Modi Hatao’. It’s an alliance of personal and vested interests,” he said.

The cracks in the Congress-Janata Dal Secular government in Karnataka showed what happens to such “power hungry” alliances.

“What happened to the alliance in Karnataka, when its Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy tells the state he was chief minister because of Rahulji only and that the he cannot control MLAs and Ministers of partners,” Shah said.

If they’re voted to power, “dealers, not leaders,” would run the country, he said.  

“There would be different prime minister on different days under the grand alliance. On Monday, Mayawati will be PM, Akhilesh on Tuesday, Mamata Didi on Wednesday, Deve Gowda on Thursday, C Naidu on Friday, Stalin on Saturday, and on Sunday the country will go without a Prime Minister,” he said, asking party workers in Rajasthan to ensure the party’s appeal reached “every house” and that the party, which recently lost assembly election because of anti-incumbency, was voted to power.

"Modiji is the strongest leader in the country, No one else could give a strong, stable and transparent government,” Shah said, adding that he was confident the BJP would be voted back to power with a bigger majority in the upcoming general elections than they have now.