November 24, 2024

Digene: Ashok Gehlot cites 3 reasons to retain power in Rajasthan | India News

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JAIPUR: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday said he was confident of a Congress win in assembly polls and added that the BJP would not form the government in any of the five states where elections are being held.
“Congress government will be formed in Rajasthan and in all five states, I feel that BJP is not going to form the government. Exit polls may say something, surveys might suggest something, but based on the feedback of people in the cities and villages, I feel that our government should come,” Gehlot told reporters.
Gehlot said there is no reason why the Congress government will not be repeated in the state.Speaking to the media in Delhi, Gehlot cited three reasons.
According to him, there is no anti-incumbency against the state government. Secondly, even BJP leaders admit there is no accusation against the chief minister. Thirdly, the way Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other BJP leaders tried to target the Congress government has not gone down well with the masses.
He said the Congress government in Rajasthan is the only government in the country, which has no anti-incumbency factor against it. “People are saying that the chief minister has not left any stone unturned in doing development works.”
Gehlot slammed “frightening language” used by BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Union home minister Amit Shah, during the election campaign. “It was the language of vengeance and creating tension,” he said.
“No one liked the language they spoke. They were attacking me because they could not topple my government as they did in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh. They failed. They were hiding that pain inside. They deliberately planned in Delhi to not let Congress retain its government in Rajasthan. So, they were angry and spoke such a language,” he said.
Replying to a question on a UP court issuing summons to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for “objectionable” remarks he made on Union home minister Amit Shah in 2018, Gehlot said, “The attack on Rahul Gandhi will cost them in 2024. The aura of Modi ji is not the same as it was earlier. People do not come to his public meetings like earlier. He is not able to understand it.”
“His (Rahul Gandhi) membership is not going to be affected. They keep hatching conspiracies. These people are conspirators. They are destroying the country, killing democracy and the Constitution,” chief minister Gehlot alleged.



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