Amit Shah also said that in West Bengal the BJP will win "at least thirty seats', where PM Modi and the saffron party is contesting against Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee. Acknowledging a close fight in southern states of Karnataka, Kerala, amil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh, Amit Shah claimed that BJP would “open accounts in Kerala, and Tamil Nadu". Shah also convicted that BJP would be “ahead of Congress" in all four southern states combined.
In his interview with News18, Amit Shah attributed the reduced voter turnout to what he described as the "incompetence" of the opposition. Additionally, he pointed to the revision of electoral rolls after 12 years as a contributing factor to the decline in voter participation. Amit Shah revered, in solid words, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's EVM tampering allegations.
Amit Shah questioned the rhetoric and asked why the BJP could not win in Tamil Nadu or why the saffron party lost in Telangana. “When you win, EVM is right. When you lose, EVM is useless." Amit Shah jibed at Rahul Gandhi.
Shah also accused Congress of suppressing the Mandal commission and termed the grand old party as anti-backward class. "Rahul Gandhi has a rule — lie, lie loudly, lie repeatedly. And he is following that rule," Amit Shah said.
The Home Minister defended the timing of Arvind Kejriwal's and Hemant Soren's arrests by stating that they would have been detained six months before the elections if they had appeared after the initial summonses. He highlighted that despite multiple summonses being issued, they failed to comply with the directives, leading to their eventual arrest. On allegations made by Sunita Kejriwal that there was a conspiracy to kill Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal
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