Gandhinagar, May 17 -- Union Home minister Amit Shah on Sunday hailed the BJP's recent victory in West Bengal polls and said the party and its NDA allies now govern 80 per cent of the country's territory.
Addressing a gathering after inaugurating and laying the foundation stone for projects worth Rs 620 crore for the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation, he said the Congress was "wiped out" in Gujarat's local body elections. The AAP "could not even open an account", he said.
Shah said the BJP's "unstoppable journey of development" in Gujarat began under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and was later carried forward by former chief ministers Anandiben Patel and Vijay Rupani and current CM Bhupendra Patel.
"As a result of this pro-development approach of the BJP, Congress was completely wiped out in the recent local body elections. Even if we search far and wide with binoculars, Congress is nowhere to be seen," Shah said.
"And people from AAP, claiming 'we will win this, we will win that', got wiped out in Delhi, and here they couldn't even open an account here," he added.
Shah praised BJP workers for maintaining close contact with people and resolving their issues, saying this had strengthened public trust in the party.
Recalling the COVID-19 pandemic period, Shah said BJP workers across Gujarat served people selflessly.
"Somewhere they delivered food kits to the poor, somewhere they took those who had no one to hospitals, somewhere they arranged testing, and somewhere BJP workers managed vaccination lines without taking their own vaccine," he said.
Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from Millennium Post.