BHAVNAGAR: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah on Tuesday took a jibe at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, saying his visits to Gujarat had increased as thinks Gujarat to be a "tourist spot".
"Rahul Gandhi thinks that this is a tourist spot. He is coming here quite often. I don't have any problem with that but he should come here and give an account of what the Sonia-Manmohan (UPA) government, which ruled in Delhi for 10 years, did for Gujarat," Shah said.
Shah said that the Gujarat elections are a battle between Congress's casteism and dynastic rule and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's developmental politics. He said the people of Gujarat need to decide if they would choose "casteism, dynastic rule, minority appeasement or the developmental politics and stability offered by the BJP".
"The people of Gujarat have to decide, that will they choose the Congress which had tried to create a caste divide between 1985 and 1995 by putting the KHAM theory into practice or chose the development and stability provided by the BJP government from 1995 to 2017," Shah said.
"Friends, our leader Narendra Modi has started the process of ridding India of the politics of casteism, dynasty and minority appeasement," Shah said.
He claimed that UPA did nothing for the people of the country.
"After Narendra Modi came to power in Delhi, he gave the bullet train, he gave the 'Ro-Ro' ferry service, he gave the international airport (for the Saurashtra region) and he resolved all the pending problems that Gujarat had with the Centre," he said.
He was addressing a rally before Gujarat BJP president Jitu Vaghani filed his nomination from the Bhavnagar (west) seat.
