PUNE, July 21 : Conceding that his party workers had expected more seats in the Lok Sabha elections, senior BJP leader Amit Shah on Sunday urged them to selflessly work to make up for the shortfall in the upcoming assembly elections.
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The Union Home Minister was speaking in the concluding ceremony of the Maharashtra Pradesh BJP convention in here.
“BJP got 240 seats in the Lok Sabha elections,. The entire iNDI Alliance together did not get so many seats. Even if all the seats of the last three elections are combined, this sum is not so much.
“The people of the country have given the BJP the mandate to form a majority government for the third time. But our workers were expecting more seats. In such a situation, one does not walk in despair, but one has to start working with renewed vigour,” said Shah.
He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi worked for the development of the country in the last ten years.
The work of bringing in the Uniform Civil Code will be done by the Modi government and the country is waiting for it, said Shah.
The Modi-led government made the country safe by ending terrorism, Naxalism, in the country. “Some media groups are trying to mislead by giving fake news, but we believe that the BJP government will be in power in the country for thirty years,” he said.
He alleged that Congress and Indi alliance leaders are spreading confusion in the society, and conceded that the “false propaganda” that reservations will end has created “confusion”.
He alleged that the Congress also campaigned that the Constitution will be changed, but the Modi government considered the Constitution as the best.
Shah also alleged that whenever a BJP government comes in Maharashtra, it gets Maratha reservation, and when a government comes with the blessings of NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar, reservation ends.
Warning that if Sharad Pawar-backed government is formed in the state after the Assembly election the Maratha reservation will disappear, he said, “remember that BJP has given justice to every section of the society”.
He also challenged that if Sharad Pawar has the courage, he should come to any square of Pune for a discussion on what he did for Maharashtra when he was a minister in the UPA government at the Centre.
Shah presented the list of development works done by the Modi government for Maharashtra in front of the workers. He said that Pawar, despite being the agriculture minister, did not even solve the issue of income tax of sugar mills in ten years.
Criticising Congres leader Rahul Gandhi, Shah said Rahul has not fulfilled even one-third of his promises in Telangana, Karnataka and Himachal. He said on the contrary, the Modi government has fulfilled every promise it made.
He said the Modi government has ensured the security of the country, and hoped that India will be free of Naxals in two years. (UNI)
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