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Amit Shah calls Delhi win unexpected, credits Modi

amit-shah-bengal-salil-bera BJP all India president Amit Shah at Sealdah station in Kolkata during his visit in West Bengal | Salil Bera

BJP president Amit Shah on Wednesday said that the party's win in MCD election is the result of PM Narendra Modi’s relentless developmental work for the last three years.

“It’s an unexpected win. It was possible only because of the Modi government’s developmental work which was relentless for last three years. We are grateful to people of Delhi,” Shah said in Kolkata. He said the Delhi MCD election is an instance of how Kejriwal's negative politics was rejected. 

On the Naxal attack on CRPF men at Sukhma, Shah said that the incident will not affect the government's attempt to thwart Maoists. “We are most fierce against Maoists than any government in the past. We have caused maximum damage to them. We will finish them,” Shah said, adding that one or two incidents do not prove that the government’s plan is going awry. “We had new plans for facing Maoists in the past. We will have more plans in the future,” said he.

He called his visit to Naxalbari as an indication in this regard. “I have started my journey in Bengal from Naxalbari. This is because I wanted to give a message to Maoists that we would answer their violence through development. So I started from a place where it all had started,” Shah said. But, Shah refused to elaborate on the new strategy. 

“I don’t want to get into the details of it as it is the government's job. I cannot comment on internal matters going on in the administration.” But Shah emphasised that Modi is the only prime minister so far who has been lethal against Maoists. “And he would continue to be the same in the future,” added Shah.

When asked about cow vigilantes in India, he said that action were being taken against them.

Deploring the vigilantes, he said, “I don’t approve that. I would only say that such things must be stopped. Neither Prime Minister nor I would approve it. Police are taking action against all of them throughout India. Nobody would go unpunished.”

However, he said, if BJP came to power in West Bengal, it would stop dispatch of cows across the border. “Cows are being dispatch from Bengal to Bangladesh. We will stop it if we come to power in Bengal.”

Taking a tough stand, Shah reminded that action against cow trafficking or brutal killings does not mean taking law into one's own hands. “Let this be a stern word from me. I would not approve any kind of move by anyone who would take laws in his hands,” said Shah.

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