Kejriwal needn’t feel happy about Modi turning 75, he will finish his term: Amit Shah
Hyderabad/New Delhi: Hours after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal suggested that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would “retire” at 75 and Home Minister Amit Shah would step into his role, Shah asserted that Modi would “finish his term”.
Speaking at the Hyderabad BJP office, Shah said, “I want to say this to Arvind Kejriwal and company and INDI alliance that do not need to feel happy about Narendra Modi turning 75. No such thing is mentioned in the BJP’s constitution. Modi ji is going to complete this term and Modi ji will continue to lead the country into the future. There is no confusion within the BJP; they want to create confusion.”
Speaking at the AAP office in Delhi, Kejriwal had said, “These people (BJP) ask the INDIA bloc, who is going to be your PM? Who is your candidate? I ask the BJP, who is going to be your PM? He (Modi) is turning 75 years old next September. He is the one who made the rule that party members who turn 75 years old have to retire. He has to retire next year. So I ask BJP, who is your PM pick? Who will fulfil Modi’s guarantees? Will Amit Shah do it? When you go out to vote, remember, you are voting for Amit Shah, not for Modi.”
Shah said that “Narendra Modi has 23 years of experience – as CM and PM – and he has ensured development of the country”. “He has worked tirelessly for the upliftment of the poor. Today, internal security has improved; we have a tight grip over terrorism and Naxalites. On the one hand we have a PM who comes from a poor background, a tea seller, and on the other hand we have leaders born with a silver spoon in their mouth, products of dynasty politics,” he said.
He also said that the interim bail to Kejriwal is not a clean chit. “The Supreme Court has given interim bail to Kejriwal only for election campaign purposes. On June 2, he has to surrender before the investigation agency. If Kejriwal thinks this is SC giving him a clean chit, I think his understanding of law is at fault,” he said.
On Mani Shankar Aiyar’s remarks that Pakistan is a nuclear power, Shah said, “BJP’s stand is that PoK belongs to India and it is a part of India. His (Aiyar’s) remark that Pakistan has atom bombs is deplorable.”
He also dismissed allegations that if BJP returns to power for a third time, it would remove all reservations, and said that the party only wants to remove religion-based reservation in Telangana.
