BJP President Amit Shah on Thursday claimed his party would form the government in Uttar Pradesh following Assembly elections in 2017.
“I am confident the party will form a majority government after the 2017 elections,” he told reporters after inaugurating the party’s renovated office here.
Shah sought a reply from Rahul Gandhi on the JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University) episode, wondering if the Congress Vice-President thought of the slogans raised in the varsity as being an expression of “freedom of speech”, or “anti-national”.
The BJP President said he had been raising the question for the last six days, but Rahul had maintained silence. Shah asked party workers to raise the issue in every village and said such slogans would not be supported in a democracy.
He said strict action should be taken against those involved in such activities.
On Wednesday too, Shah had attacked Rahul while addressing a public meeting in Bahraich, alleging that the Congress leader was supporting divisive forces for the sake of “votebank politics”.
“I specially want to ask Congress and its workers whether those raising slogans, like ‘Afzal Guru tere hatyare zinda hain’ and ‘Bharat ke tukde honge’, were traitors or not.”
Rahul had come out in support of JNU students protesting the arrest of JNU Students’ Union Kanhaiya Kumar on charges of sedition charge, and has accused the RSS and BJP of trying to impose their ideology.