Pune: Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader, Amit Shah, on Sunday sounded a bugle for Maharashtra Assembly election, saying that Mahayuti should win big in the assembly election also.
Addressing the state-level party convention here, he said that the party could win in the Lok Sabha election due to the hard work of BJP workers.
“We got success in the Lok Sabha election because of these workers. Due to their efforts, Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister for the third time. We want to get a big victory in the assembly election too,” he asserted.
Making a frontal attack on Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) leaders, he termed NCP (SP) supremo Sharad Pawar as the leader of corrupt parties in Indian politics and claimed that Pawar rooted corruption in Maharashtra.
“What did he do for Maharashtra when his government was in power in the state and as a minister at the Centre from 2004 to 2014,” he asked and claimed that he did nothing for people of Maharashtra.
He alleged that Pawar has institutionalised corruption.
Continuing his tirade, Shah claimed that whenever BJP came to power in the state, Marathas got reservation, whereas when Sharad Pawar-led NCP came to power, the reservation of the Marathas was gone.
When BJP returned to power in 2014, the Marathas again got reservation, however when Sharad Pawar-backed MVA came to power, it again disappeared, he recalled and blamed Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray for not doing enough to support reservation for the Marathas.
The BJP leader accused Uddhav Thackeray of doing nothing for the people of Maharashtra.
He showered praise on Devendra Fadnavis saying that his term as the chief minister from 2014 to 2019 will be remembered the most for development in the history of Maharashtra.
Talking about senior Congress leader and MP Rahul Gandhi, Shah claimed that Rahul has become arrogant after losing the parliamentary election.
He also claimed that the opposition was currently working to create confusion among public.
“We have struggled for years for Ram Janmabhumi and eventually, we made a temple,” he added.
UNI
