BJP chief Amit Shah, along with Yogi Adityanath and Smriti Irani hold a mega rally in Amethi
BJP heavyweights Amit Shah and Smriti Irani are in Uttar Pradesh's
Amethi for a mega rally with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Amit Shah's visit to Amethi, considered a Congress bastion, comes just three days after Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi visited the parliamentary constituency. A number of schemes and projects are likely to be announced and their foundation stones laid during Amit Shah's visit. The mega function is being attended by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Smriti Irani will attend the launch of an FM station at Gauriganj and an initiative to save the Gomti river near Pipri village. Ms Irani will also attend the inauguration of a tuberculosis unit at the district hospital and a primary health centre at Odari Tiloi, and attend other public welfare programs launched by the state and central governments. Amethi, which has traditionally been a Congress bastion, had in 2014 Lok Sabha elections witnessed a high-pitched electoral battle between Rahul Gandhi and Smriti Irani. Though Ms Irani lost the election, she managed to reduce his victory margin from around 3.70 lakh in 2009 to 1.07 lakh in 2014. In the 2017 UP Assembly election, the BJP won six of the 10 Assembly seats falling under the parliamentary constituencies of Amethi and Rae Bareli. Four of which were in Amethi. Through his mega rally, Amit Shah aims to send a clear message that the current regime believed in all-round development of the state.
Here are the live updates from Amit Shah's mega rally in Amethi:
Here is what BJP Chief Amit Shah said during his address in Amethi:
- I want to thank each one of you here in Amethi
- We got 4 out of 5 seats in Amethi in the Assembly election
- We take that as your blessing to us. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart
- In my entire political career, I have never seen something that is see only In Amethi
- That the losing candidate (Smriti Irani in Lok Sabha Election) has embraced a constituency and done far far more than the winning candidate (Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha election)
- You have started seeing work happening at the ground level
- You all trusted the Congress for three generations... what have you got? Did you get anything at all?
- I would like to ask Congress' 'Shahzaada' Rahul Gandhi the same question
- What have you done for the people of Amethi, who have given you nothing but their whole-hearted support and love? Have you done anything for those who look up to you?
- Rahul Baba, Is this the way you show gratitude to the people who vote for you and your part?
- Friends, you all can see both what the Gandhi-model of development and the Modi-model of development
- Since being voted to power in 2014, the Modi government has launched 106 welfare schemes for the benefit of all, especially the poor
- Rahul baba probably doesn't even know how to count till a 106
- The BJP had won 71 seats and hopes to wrest the two Congress seats too in the next national election in 2019, encouraged by its win of six of the 10 assembly seats in Amethi and Rae Bareli in state elections earlier this year.
- In Amethi, the BJP won four of five assembly seats.
Amethi was one of only two parliament seats of UP's 80 that the Congress could win in 2014; the other was neighbouring Rae Bareli, also a Gandhi family stronghold, from where Congress chief and Rahul Gandhi's mother Sonia Gandhi contested and won.
BJP chief Amit Shah will inaugurate a number of schemes during his Amethi visit.