TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Asserting that people have voted for a ‘Congress-mukt’ Karnataka, BJP president Amit Shah has said his party’s winning streak will continue and it will win all polls, including the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
Addressing party workers after the BJP emerged as the single largest party in the Karnataka Assembly election, Mr Shah said it was the 15th election which his party had won since it came to power at the Centre and hit out at the Congress for expressing “happiness” at the results.
The tally of Congress has been reduced from 122 to 78 and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah lost from his traditional seat, and barely managed to win from another, he said, mocking the opposition party. Half of the members of Siddaramaiah cabinet have lost, he said.
Mr. Shah accused the Congress of using the “most immoral politics” by joining hands with outfits such as the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) and Popular Front of India (PFI) which, he claimed, were involved in anti-national activities and a danger to the country’s security.
“Congress used politics of caste to divide the people and tried to incite Dalits on SC/ST Act in Karnataka,” Mr Shah said in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several other senior leaders of the party.
