Only Modi’s leadership can thwart Pak misadventures: Shah

TIL Desk/National/Odisha/ BJP president Amit Shah has dubbed the proposed “mahagathbandhan” (grand alliance) of opposition parties as “helpless” and asserted that his party would retain power after the upcoming Lok Sabha polls as only Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership could thwart any misadventure by Pakistan.

In a stinging attack on the Congress, he blamed the four generations of the Gandhi family for poverty still prevailing in the country. “Four generations of Rahul baba’s (Congress chief Rahul Gandhi) family were in power, but the country is still fighting against poverty. The BJP government is working for the welfare and development of the poor, tribals and Dalits,” Shah told a BJP workers’ meeting here in Odisha’s Cuttack district.

He claimed that the nation’s mood was very clear to return Modi to power and appealed to the people of Odisha to be part of this by electing a large number of MPs of the saffron party from the state. Shah hit out at the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in the state, saying Odisha remained backward, despite the flow of huge funds from the Centre, because of the inefficiency and inaction on the part of the Naveen Patnaik government.