BJP working for 'making India', Congress for 'breaking India'; will win 2019 polls with bigger majority: Amit Shah

Asserting that the BJP would return to power in 2019 with a bigger majority than what it got in 2014, Shah such an alliance would make no difference to the BJP's fortunes.

BJP president Amit Shah (PTI)

New Delhi: BJP president Amit Shah on Saturday launched a blistering attack on the Opposition party and accused the Congress of "breaking India", while Narendra Modi government worked for "making India". The BJP chief dubbed the proposed grand alliance of the Opposition parties as an "illusion, eyewash and sham for fulfilling self-interest". Asserting that the BJP would return to power in 2019 with a bigger majority than what it got in 2014, Shah such an alliance would make no difference to the BJP's fortunes. He added by saying that the saffron party would return to power in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan and emerge victorious in Mizoram and Telangana. Watch Video - The BJP chief in his inaugural address at the party's two-day national executive meet in New Delhi said the "mahagathbandhan" (grand alliance) of his party's rivals was for the sole purpose of "fulfilling self-interest", adding that it had defeated each one of them in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. Shah accused the Congress-led Opposition of practising the "poisonous" politics of caste, appeasement and malice against the Modi government, even though they had been facing defeats in elections. In its meeting, BJP yesterday decided that next year’s general elections will be fought under the leadership of Amit Shah. Reports say the party has also decided to defer internal polls, to elect a new leader. Shah's term as party president ends in January 2019. (With inputs from PTI)