Union Home Minister Amit Shah targeted Rahul Gandhi after the BJP won 90 of 104 seats in Gujarat local body elections. Shah claimed Congress had not won an election in Gujarat since 1985 and accused Gandhi of blaming SIR for the BJP’s success. He also predicted a fourth consecutive Congress defeat in the 2029 Lok Sabha elections.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday, October 13, hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi following the BJP’s performance in the Gujarat local body elections, accusing the opposition party of repeatedly losing elections in the state and predicting another defeat for Congress in the 2029 Lok Sabha elections.
Addressing reporters, Shah said the BJP had secured a resounding victory in Gujarat, winning 90 of the 104 seats across three local bodies. In the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation, which falls within his parliamentary constituency, the BJP won 38 of the 44 seats, he said.
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Shah also pointed out that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which contested all 32 seats in the elections, forfeited its security deposit in every constituency it contested. He added that the BJP’s vote share in the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation had increased by 10 percentage points compared with the previous election.
Taking a direct swipe at Rahul Gandhi, Shah said, “I want to make this point clear, and specifically convey it to Rahul ji, that the Congress party has not won a single election in 41 years. The last election they won was back in 1985; since then, they have faced continuous defeats in Gujarat.”
The Home Minister described the results as an endorsement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, asserting that the people of Gujarat continued to stand firmly behind the BJP.
Amit Shah Predicts Fourth Consecutive Congress Defeat In 2029
Shah also targeted Rahul Gandhi over his criticism of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, accusing the Congress leader of attempting to undermine the BJP’s electoral success by attributing it to the revision exercise.
“I want to tell Rahul Gandhi that the people of this country have fully understood your strategy of shielding infiltrators under the guise of the SIR, and they will no longer fall for your ruses,” Shah said.
