Amit Shah Slams Rahul Gandhi, says will go to people’s court

NEW DELHI: BJP President Amit Shah on Friday slammed Congress Vice-president Rahul Gandhi for his remarks that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was trying to ‘profiteer from the blood of jawans’.

Accusing Gandhi of “crossing all limits”, Shah said that his party would take the issue to the people.

Even though Shah insisted that the strikes should not be politicised, he said that BJP would go to people over the issue to “boost the Army’s morale” and that the strikes underlined the Modi government’s ‘zero tolerance policy’ against terrorism as well as its ‘strong political will’ to take hard decisions.

“By making ‘khoon ki dalali’ remarks, Rahul Gandhi has crossed all limits. It was an extreme. By choosing such words, he insulted the bravery of our soldiers and 125 crore people of India.”

Raking up a number of alleged scams under the UPA government, he said wryly that ‘dalali’ word is on Gandhi’s mind as his party’s government did ‘dalali’ in Bofors, Embraer, 2G and coal block allocation deals but the strikes were not an occasion for using such a term.