Rahul should be ashamed of seeking air strike proof: Shah

BJP president Amit Shah Thursday said Congress chief Rahul Gandhi should feel ashamed of asking for proof of India's air strike on a terror camp in Pakistan. People will give Gandhi a reply for (saying) it during the ensuing Lok Sabha polls, the BJP leader said.

Addressing the party's booth-level workers at Bamora near Sagar town in Madhya Pradesh, Shah said an IAF official at a press conference asserted that the IAF had hit terror targets. Even after this conclusive statement, Gandhi is insulting thousands of martyrs of India by asking for evidence of the air strike, Shah said.

The IAF conducted air strike last month on a camp of Jaish-e-Mohammed in Pakistan, in retaliation to the terror outfit's attack at Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed. Shah lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his "work and untiring attitude." Earlier "only two countries" were known for avenging attack on their forces. "Modiji has now ensured India's name is also counted among such countries," he said.

In the last 25 years, Modi has not taken a single vacation, Shah said. He targeted Gandhi for "going on vacations frequently." The country has got a prime minister who works for 18 out of 24 hours a day and is very dedicated towards the nation, the BJP chief said. "What the Modi government has done in 55 months of rule, the Congress was unable to do in 55 years with Gandhi family's four generations ruling the country," he said.

The Modi government brought a major change in the country by implementing 135 welfare schemes, including Ayushman Bharat, Rs 6,000 per annum for small and marginal farmers and Rs 3,000 pension for labourers, Shah said. People of the country are with the BJP and would again vote for the party in the ensuing polls, he said, asking BJP workers to work hard in the next two months.

The Modi government has raised defence budget to Rs three lakh crore, which is the highest after independence, he said. Modi has shown that those who try to play with India's borders will have to pay heavily for it, Shah said.

"First by surgical strike and later by air strike, the Modi government gave freedom to jawans to give a befitting reply to bullets with cannon fire," he said. On the new Congress-led regime in Madhya Pradesh, he said it is not correct to say nothing has changed in the state in last two months (after BJP lost the polls in MP).

"Law and order under the Congress regime has become Lo (take) and order," Shah said, in an apparent reference to alleged corruption in the large number of transfer orders being issued by the new state government after it came to power in December last year. In the name of farmers loan waiver, the Congress government has cheated peasants, he said. It was supposed to waive Rs 50,000 crore loans but so far has only waived Rs 5,000 crore loans, he added.

"This government has no concern for farmers but for middlemen and its own comfort. We should highlight this among people," Shah said..

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