Amit Shah calls Cong, SP, BSP ‘Ka-sa-b’

BJP chief alludes to 26/11 Mumbai attacker to target rivals in UP

Chauri Chaura, Feb. 22: BJP president Amit Shah Wednesday said people of Uttar Pradesh should get rid of “Kasab” if they want to see development in the state.

“I say it again. People of UP should get rid of Kasab. Do not take any other meaning when I say Kasab. What I mean by Kasab is: Ka for Congress, Sa for Samajwadi Party and B for BSP,” Mr Shah said at a rally.

Ajmal Kasab was one of the terrorists who went on a shooting spree at several locations in Mumbai in November 2008, also known as 26/11.

“Until and unless Kasab is laid to rest, development and prosperity will continue to elude the pollbound state,” the Bharatiya Janata Party president said.

“In other words, it means that the state may have to languish further, if there is no respite from these political parties,” he added.

Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said the acronym “SCAM” stood for Samajwadi Party, Congress, Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati.

He had also called the Bahujan Samaj Party the “Behenji Sampatti Party”.

BSP chief Mayawati described the BJP as “Bhartiya Jumla (rhetoric) Party”, and called the Prime Minister “Mr Negative Dalit Man”.

UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav also had an explanation for SCAM — “Save Country from Amit Shah and Modi”.

“They will ask your religion and caste first. If that doesn’t seem favourable to them, they won’t give you laptop,” Mr Shah said at a rally in Chauri Chaura.

He said the party would storm to power in Uttar Pradesh with two-thirds majority.

“Voters of the state are fed up with misrule under successive SP and BSP governments, which lasted for nearly 14 years, and they are desperately seeking a change,” he said.

“If the state government had done something concrete and was confident about its performance, there would have been no need for alliance (with Congress),” he said.

He had called Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and Mr Yadav as two princes — one giving a tough time to his mother and the other to his father.

Voters in UP are troubled by both of them, Mr Shah had said.