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Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Union Home Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Shah on Thursday said that on June 4, the day the votes for the Lok Sabha elections will be counted, the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will cross the majority mark. 400 seats till 12.30 noon. Shah’s statements emphasized the BJP’s Lok Sabha election slogan – ‘Aab ki paar, 400 paar’.
In an interview with AyraNews24x7, Amit Shah claimed that the BJP under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will repeat its 2019 Lok Sabha election performance in Maharashtra, Delhi, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir and Gujarat.
During the interview, Shah also said that the BJP will win “at least 30 seats” in West Bengal, where the saffron party is taking on its supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC).
On BJP’s struggle in South India
Acknowledging a tough fight in the southern states of Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, Amit Shah claimed that the BJP will “open accounts in Kerala and Tamil Nadu”. Shah also said that the BJP would be “ahead”. Congress” jointly in all four southern states.
On low voting in Lok Sabha elections 2024
In the interview, Amit Shah described the low voting percentage as the “incompetence” of the opposition. Additionally, he pointed to the revision of voter rolls after 12 years as a contributing factor to the decline in voter participation.
On allegations of EVM tampering by Rahul Gandhi
The Union Home Minister completely rejected Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s allegations of tampering with electronic voting machines. Questioning the logic, Shah asked if the allegations of tampering were true then why the BJP could not win in Tamil Nadu or face defeat in Telangana.
“When you win, the EVMs are right. When you lose, EVMs become useless.” Amit Shah took a dig at Rahul Gandhi.
Shah also accused Congress of suppressing the Mandal Commission report and described the grand old party as “anti-backward class”. “Rahul Gandhi has a rule – lie, lie loudly, lie again and again. And he is following that rule,” Amit Shah said.
On the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal
The Home Minister defended the timing of the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal and Hemant Soren, saying that if they had appeared after the initial summons, they would have been arrested six months before the elections. He highlighted that despite several summons, they failed to comply with the instructions, which ultimately led to their arrest.
On Sunita Kejriwal’s allegation that a conspiracy was hatched to kill Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in jail, Amit Shah told AyraNews24x7 that Tihar Jail, where Kejriwal is lodged, comes under the jurisdiction of the Delhi government and not the Central Home. Of the Ministry.
Shah told AyraNews24x7, “Look, Tihar Jail comes under the Delhi government, whose Chief Minister is Kejriwal ji. So is he plotting to kill himself?”
CAA is
Amit Shah also said that the initial grant of citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is to be released in May 2024. He said that the influx of applications for citizenship under CAA has already started. He said, “I think the process of granting citizenship will start before the elections, before the last phase.”
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Published: May 02, 2024, 09:30 PM IST
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