On Saturday, BJP president Amit Shah stumbled and fell while alighting from a vehicle after his roadshow in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh.
Though Amit Shah managed to get up unhurt immediately after one of his bodyguards quickly offered support. The incident happened at the Tulsi Park.
While addressing a public meeting in Shivpuri district later, Shah continued to fire salvos at the Congress like his previous election campaigns and said the chief of the opposition party, Rahul Gandhi, was daydreaming about winning the November 28, Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections.
Madhya Pradesh is under the rule of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2003 with Shivraj Singh Chouhan occupying the chief minister’s post since 2005.
Shah told the gathering, “While waiting to board a flight at an airport, I saw Rahul baba on a TV channel, claiming that his party was going to come to power in Madhya Pradesh.”
He said in a retort to Rahul Gandhi’s claim made during campaigning that the Congress would form governments in all five states — Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram — that are up for polls, “Rahul baba is dreaming in the day that his party is going to form the government in Madhya Pradesh.”
On December 11, the election results for all these five states will be declared.
Futher ridiculing Rahul Gandhi, Amit Shahsaid that dreaming was not bad, but one should not build castles in the air, that too during the day.
He said, “After 2014 (when the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance took over at the Centre), people have no room for the Congress and it has been wiped out from (most) states. Even with binoculars, its (Congress) traces are hardly seen anywhere.”
The BJP chief also took a jibe at the opposition party for not declaring its chief ministerial face in Madhya Pradesh.
He asked, “Rahul Gandhi, who is your leader in Madhya Pradesh? Is it raja (Digvijay Singh), maharaja (Jyotiraditya Scindia) or a worn-out industrialist (Kamal Nath)?”
While Jyotiraditya Scindia is Congress’s campaign committee chief in the state, Kamal Nath heads the party’s Madhya Pradesh unit and Digvijay Singh was the chief minister of the state for 10 years from 1993 to 2003.
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