Courting a major controversy, BJP national president Amit Shah on Friday made stinging remarks against the opposition parties who are trying to unite to take on the BJP in next year’s Lok Sabha polls. Amit shah has described them as ‘snakes’, ‘mongoose’, ‘dogs’ and ‘cats’.
“The countdown for 2019 (polls) has begun. Attempts are being made for opposition unity. When huge floods occur, everything is washed away. Only a ‘vatvriksha (banyan tree) survives and snakes, mongoose, dogs, cats and other animals climb out to save themselves from the rising waters. Due to Modi flood, all cats, dogs, snakes and mongoose are getting together to contest polls,” Shah said.
He was apparently referring to the efforts being made by various parties like the TRS, the Trinamool Congress and the TDP to sew up a coalition to take on the Modi-led BJP in the next general elections.Later when a huge flak came from Opposition leaders against Shah’s comments, Shah said his intention was not to equate Opposition parties to animals. Shah tried to clarify, “What I meant was political parties having no ideological similarities are coming together out of fear of Modi.”
“Snake and mongoose have nothing in common. Let me take names: Samajwadi Party and BSP, Trinamool Congress and Congress, Chandrababu Naidu and Congress, they have nothing in common and no ideological similarities, but are coming together,” Amit Shah said.He also accused the Opposition of not allowing the Budget session of Parliament to function. The session concluded today. On the Parliament session being washed out, Shah said, “We were ready to address all issues in the Parliament. It was the Opposition that disrupted the proceedings.”
Coming back to ‘vote bank’ politics, Amit Shah asserted that the BJP government would not scrap the reservation policy, nor allow anyone to do so.
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