‘Modi as CM got BJP 121 seats; now that he is PM, we’ll get more’

Vaghela quit the Congress because of his chief ministerial ambitions. What can the BJP offer him? He (Vaghela) will not join the BJP although other MLAs (who quit the Congress) will. Modiji will be our face because in elections, pictures of the national leadership are used. Won’t the Congress put up pictures of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul? R We will also use Modiji i’s photo. The BJP will gain from Modiji’s po ularity. In UP, Yogi iji was declared (CM) later Votes c in Modiji’s name. Pat id ars might not be e agi tatin today but it’s believed d that the rise up again in the ru un up to t elections. How do yo ou plan to with it? All these things hav ve been sorted out. It’s not ana issue Gujarat. Everybod dy kn Patidar samaj (com was and is with the B . There have been several incidents of atrocities against Dalits in Gujarat in recent times. This is said to have made a big dent in your Dalit votebank…. This has been made an issue to malign Gujarat. What happened in Una? No government has taken as strict an action against Dalit atrocities as we did.did Even now ththey (the

. Dalit votes in UP are large and so these things were happening. It was made an issue to tarnish the image of Modi, the BJP and Gujarat. In the gram panchayat elections, the BJP was elected in the village where the incident took place. Police officials such as DG Vanzara and MMN Dinesh are getting acquit tted in fake encounter cas ses. Why are these cases fa alling apart? It was done byb the Congress to implicate Moodi ji and Amitbhai JP chief Ammit Shah). In case Ishrat Jehan, for instance, en the terrrorist organisation id that she was a member. ill this casee! It was a con spiry. Ab dood ka dood aur ani ka paani ho raha hai ( hings are becoming more now). All this was political tio There has been a shadow of post-Godhra riots on every election in Gujarat in the past 15 years. Do you see it receding now? The Congress has to think about it. There has not been a single riot from 2001 till now. It’s not happening during our government. During the Congress regime, there were riots every six months. Our government talks about 6.5 crore Gujaratis. We work for everyone’s interest: appeasement for none, justice for all. Opposition parties have planned a mega rally in Gujarat on September 1. How is the BJP preparing to counter them? After Rahul Gandhi became the leader (of the Congress), there have been 22 big elections; Congress lost them all. So why should you bother about Rahul? The more rallies Rahul holds, the more we will benefit.