Amit Shah hits out at Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi in poll-bound MP, says 'their roots are from Italy’
MP Assembly Elections: Union Home Minister Amit Shah slammed Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi on Saturday, saying their roots are "from Italy, not India."
"Everywhere, people are talking about India's development. The country is being hailed. In the past nine years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led India to new heights at a global stage," the Home Minister said addressing a poll rally in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara.
"Congress does not see positive things. This brother and sister (Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi) keep roaming across the country and keep asking, what happened...well they won't understand because their roots are from Italy not from India," he added.
"Congress used to hinder and obstruct Ram Mandir's construction. In 2019, the people of Madhya Pradesh gave PM Modi so many seats that, for the second time, he silently went and laid the foundation stone of Ram Mandir, and Lord Ram's idol will be installed there in January," the home minister added.
Shah slammed former Chief Minister Kamal Nath while speaking at a rally in Chhindwara, a stronghold of the MP Congress." Kamal Nath and Digvijaya Singh supporters are ready to tear each other's clothes. A party that is divided and does politics for the sake of a 'family' cannot bring about progress in Madhya Pradesh," he added.
The saffron party wants to keep power in Madhya Pradesh, which holds elections for its 230-member assembly on November 17. The BJP won 109 seats in the 2018 election, while the Congress formed a government under Kamal Nath's leadership after winning 114 seats. However, Nath was forced to resign in 2020 after 23 Congress MLAs, including six ministers, resigned, reducing the government to a minority.
Following the collapse of the Congress government, the BJP formed a new government led by Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
- ANI
