Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday attacked Rahul Gandhi, suggesting that his party will get such a drubbing in election that he will have to take out a ‘Congress Dhoondho Yatra’ after June 4. Addressing an election rally in Bareilly, Shah alleged that Rahul, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and SP’s Akhilesh Yadav did not attend the Ram Temple consecration ceremony in Ayodhya fearing their going may alienate their vote bank. “The ‘shehzade’ (prince) of ‘ghamandia’ I.N.D.I. Alliance started his election campaign with Bharat Jodo Yatra but on June 4 (counting day), it will end with a ‘Congress Dhoondho Yatra’,” Shah said.

 

“In the first two phases, Congress is nowhere, while Narendra Modi has made a century and taken a lead in the ‘400 race’ (race to 400 seats),” he said. He said that this election is for ending terrorism and Naxalism and making India the third major economy globally. Shah hit out at the I.N.D.I.A. bloc partner Samajwadi Party, saying it indulges in dynastic politics, for its President Akhilesh Yadav has given tickets to five members of his family in the current election. He said that while Akhilesh is contesting from Kannauj and his wife Dimple Yadav is in fray from Mainpuri, Akshay Yadav, Aditya Yadav, and Dharmendra Yadav, all three his family members, are contenders from Firozabad, Budaun, and Azamgarh.