Rahul Gandhi’s New Theory is to See Victory in Defeats: Amit Shah

Amit Shah also said that the BJP will not make any efforts to topple the government in Karnataka.

Amit Shah and Rahul Gandhi. 

(Photo: IANS/PTI/Altered by The Quint)

BJP president Amit Shah on Saturday, 19 May, hit out at Congress president Rahul Gandhi for celebrating BS Yeddyurappa's resignation in Karnataka as a "victory", saying the mandate was to get rid of Siddaramaiah, and claimed that the Congress-JD(S) coalition will not last long.

If someone is seeing victory in defeat, then who can stop him. The BJP has already won the Karnataka elections and the people of the state have clearly given their mandate to get rid of the Congress.

Amit Shah at a programme of India TV

He said that Gandhi has started a new tradition of celebration even after the party's defeat.

He (Gandhi) has propounded a new theory where he sees a win even if his party is defeated. They won in nine Lok Sabha bypolls and they celebrate it as their victory, but why do they forget that we have snatched 11 states from them?

Amit Shah

The party chief said that the BJP will not make any efforts to topple the government in Karnataka.

"Such a government will not last long in the state. Congress leaders have themselves not accepted their alliance with JD(S)," he said.

He said that the BJP had claimed of winning 130 seats in Karnataka elections but the number of seats it won was not less.

It is an achievement for us. We wanted to expose the Congress government before Karnataka and I believe we have succeeded in that. We had approached the people of Karnataka with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s four years’ achievements and the way Siddaramaiah government had been exploiting the state, and we emerged victorious.

Amit Shah

Responding to allegations of horse-trading by the Opposition leaders in Karnataka, Shah said: "This would not have been the result had we offered to bribe and buy the MLAs of other parties."

Over Gandhi's allegations that the Modi government has waived the loans of industrialists, he said:

Rahul Gandhi should name one businessman whose loans we have waived, or he should accept that he misleads the people of the country.

Amit Shah

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