Dediapada (Gujarat) [India], November 27 (ANI): Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his repeated visits to poll-bound Gujarat, saying the PM was campaigning in each road of the state.
Addressing a public rally for the Congress at Dediapada in Gujarat on Sunday, Gehlot mentioned, “PM Modi is having to marketing campaign in each road of Gujarat because the BJP authorities did nothing for the folks of the state. No inquiry was condcted into the Morbi (bridge collapse) incident, which left 135 individuals useless. In case you elect the Congress, the BJP will likely be pressured to introspect (on its failures).”
Addressing one other marketing campaign occasion in Vadodra earlier on Sunday, Gehlot questioned the PM’s repeated visits to Gujarat whereas claiming that he is aware of of not less than 30-35 insurgent leaders within the BJP’s state unit.
“What’s the want for PM Modi to go to Gujarat repeatedly? Isn’t his identify sufficient to draw votes? The explanation for his frequent visits right here is that the BJP is scared. I’ve been instructed that there are practically 30-35 rebels contained in the BJP (in Gujarat). Such is the extent of anger throughout the get together,” Gehlot mentioned.
The senior Congress chief additional claimed that there’s ‘large anti-incumbency’ in Gujarat as he urged folks to prove in numbers to vote the Congress to energy.
Gujarat is taken into account a saffron citadel, with the BJP being on the helm of affairs of the state for over 20 years.
Claiming that there was an ‘atmosphere of concern’ in the whole nation, the Rajasthan chief minister mentioned (the get together’s former nationwide president) Rahul Gandhi had taken out his ongoing ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ to ship out a message of ‘love and peace’ within the nation.
Congress nationwide president Mallikarjun Kharge, who was additionally current on the rally in Dediapada, took intention on the BJP, saying, “Modi and Shah have been asking what the Congress did in additional than 50 years in energy (on the Centre). If the Congress had not labored all these years, we’d not have had a democracy at this time.”
The Meeting elections in Gujarat are scheduled to be held in two phases on December 1 and December 5, with the counting of votes scheduled on December 8. (ANI)
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