Daijiworld Media Network – Bengaluru (DC)
Bengaluru, May 8: Bharathiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah is confident that the BJP would garner 50% vote share in the country by 2019 with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal popularity growing day by day.
“After 50% vote share, there will not be much left even for a combined opposition,” he said. In an interview with TOI, Shah said that the Modi's popularity has helped the BJP to tap anger of the electorate in Karnataka against the ruling Congress led by Siddaramaiah.
He targeted the Siddaramaiah led Congress and said that Bengaluru was handed over to a troika of builders “George, Harris and Roshan Baig” belonging to Congress. He further said, “Other governments may prefer one builder or the other. Here it is the builders who have the state at their disposal,”
Shah also blamed the Congress government for its failure in infrastructure development and alleviation of farm distress to law and order.
He said that the decision to recognize Lingayats as a non-Hindu community by the state government had not worked in favour of the Congress and he said that the BJP will wrest power.
While defending BJP's chief ministerial candidate B S Yeddyurappa despite corruption charges, Shah said that the allegations were dismissed by a court and there was no truth in it.