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Who will take the rap if BJP loses in Gujarat: Shotgun

- IANS

new delhi — Taking on his own BJP party, actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha on Wednesday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party chief Amit Shah as to who will take the blame if the BJP loses the Gujarat Assembly election.

“If we are victorious, we know you shall get full credit... But if we are not, then who will take the rap? There’s an old saying: Taali kaptaan ko, to gaali bhi kaptaan ko. Hope, wish and pray we get only Taalis (claps) in Gujarat elections. Jai Hind!” Sinha tweeted.

Sinha, who has been increasing­ly critical of the Bharatiya Janata Party receiving threats from high-level state BJP functionar­ies who were telling the mediaperso­ns that they would be jailed for violating the Model Code of Conduct.

“We appeal to the Election Commission to take notice of it. It is for the EC to decide whether an action is a violation of Model Code of Conduct or not,” Surjewala said. —

Humble appeal to our one man show and two man army. Please return ‘home’ to Delhi if we’ve exhausted all our tricks, tantrums, wrong statements and tall promises.

Shatrughan Sinha

leadership, referred to Modi and Shah as the “one man show and two man army”.

He asked them to return to Delhi AHMEDABAD — Congress Presidente­lect Rahul Gandhi has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi helped him “the most” and he does not hate him. “Modiji has helped me the most... How can I hate him,” Rahul Gandhi said in an interview to Gujarati news channel GSTV.

He was asked about the comments made against the NehruGandh­i family by the prime minister. from Gujarat, where the second and final phase of voting to elect a new Assembly will take place on Thursday.

“Humble appeal to our one man show and two man army. Please return ‘home’ to Delhi if we’ve exhausted all our tricks, tantrums, wrong statements and tall promises. “Time to also bring back the ministers, ministries and government sitting in Gujarat and fighting amongst themselves to get credit,” Sinha said.

Modi and Shah have been the star campaigner­s for the BJP in Gujarat, whose election results will be known on December 18. —

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“If you look at religion and the history of the nation, love has to be the response to hatred. There is zero emotion of anger and hatred in me,” he said in response to a question on the comments made on the Nehru-Gandhi family.

“It is the nature of our family. Maybe the legend of Gujarat, Mahatma Gandhi taught this to our family...,” he added. —

 ?? PTI ?? Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former prime minister Manmohan Singh exchange greetings during the tribute paying ceremony for the martyrs of the 2001 Parliament attack on its 16th anniversar­y, at Parliament House in New Delhi on Wednesday. —
PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former prime minister Manmohan Singh exchange greetings during the tribute paying ceremony for the martyrs of the 2001 Parliament attack on its 16th anniversar­y, at Parliament House in New Delhi on Wednesday. —
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