Amit Shah announces his next target: Sonia Gandhi’s Rae Bareli
Embarking upon his most ambitious political project yet, Mission Rae Bareli, BJP chief Amit Shah on Saturday unveiled a blueprint for the Lok Sabha constituency of Sonia Gandhi similar in scale to the one launched in the adjacent Amethi to target her son, Congress president Rahul Gandhi.
“We will end ‘parivarvaad’ (dynastic rule) in Rae Bareli and usher in vikasvaad (development),” Shah said at a rally here. When his party returns to seek votes in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he said, the city would be a ‘model Rae Bareli’ that showcases his party’s intent.
Shah’s ‘parivarvaad’ jibe has a context: Barring three exceptions - 1977, 1996 and 1998 - Rae Bareli has stood by the Congress since 1952, sending generation after generation of the Nehru-Gandhi family from Feroze to Indira and Sonia to the Lok Sabha.
Taking on Congress chief over his recent remark that ‘truth will catch up with Shah one day’, after the apex court ruled against the need to probe Judge BH Loya’s death, the BJP chief said: “Modiji’s government stands for truth and justice. Today so many leaders of the Panchavati family joined the BJP because the party stands for truth.”
Soon after the SC decision on Judge Loya, Gandhi had tweeted that people instinctively knew the truth. “Indians are deeply intelligent. Most Indians, including those in the BJP instinctively understand the truth about Mr Amit Shah. The truth has its own way of catching up with people like him,” Gandhi had tweeted.
Shah used the Rae Bareli stage to respond to Gandhi.
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