Amit Shah slams Rahul Gandhi on dynastic politics

NEW DELHI: BJP chief Amit Shah slammed Congress vicepresident Rahul Gandhi on the issue of dynastic politics, saying BJP believes in the politics of performance, which aims at alleviating the suffering of the people and ensures their welfare though ‘swachhta’, poverty eradication, fighting graft and terror and ending caste and communal politics.

In his inaugural address at the BJP national executive meet here, Shah emphasised the “vision of New India” envisaged by PM Modi and exhorted the party workers to work towards achieving it in the next five years.

Railway minister Piyush Goyal told reporters that Shah also spoke against the politics of violence, which he alleged is practised by the Left parties in Kerala and by TMC in West Bengal. The BJP chief inspired the party cadre to counter this in democratic ways and announced that party workers will undertake a ‘padyatra’ from October 3 to 17 in Kerala to seek the support of the people and expose the Left parties.

Taking on Gandhi, Shah said he had compromised the dignity of the nation by stating during his recent foreign visit that belonging to a dynasty is a must in Indian politics and alleging that the Indian economy is not doing well. Shah said the top constitutional posts — that of the president of India, the vice-president, the PM and the Lok Sabha speaker — are held by people who have risen from humble backgrounds through their performance, merit and hard work.

Amit Shah praised the UN speech of foreign minister Sushma Swaraj in which she had exposed Pakistan on sponsoring terror.