UNION Home Minister Amit Shah slammed the Congress and its leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday, saying protests would not achieve anything, and asserted that the BJP would remain in power for 30 years as the party existed among people and addressed their concerns. Inaugurating projects worth Rs 8,941 crore for Yamuna rejuvenation, Shah accused the previous Congress and AAP Governments in the city of doing nothing to check pollution in the river. He also launched a scathing attack on AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal and said the “politics of making excuses” would not last long and his party would be “routed” in the Punjab elections next year.

 

Shah accused Gandhi of gathering party cadres from other States to stage protests in Delhi and asserted that they could not reject the mandate given by the people to the BJP. “People of the country understand you. You cannot hear me because you are sitting somewhere abroad and you don’t even explain why you are abroad. It is alright, as it is your private life,” Shah said, taking a dig at the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha over his unannounced foreign visits. Gandhi was not going to have a chance of coming to power even in the next 30 years, he said. “Crores of BJP workers and Prime Minister Modi exist among the people, understand their concerns and work continuously to solve them.”