Rahul baba is daydreaming: Amit Shah in Hamirpur

HAMIRPUR: A day after declaring senior party leader Prem Kumar Dhumal as the chief ministerial candidate, BJP president Amit Shah on Wednesday launched attack on the incumbent chief minister and Congress senior leader Virbhadra Singh and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi.
Flanked by Dhumal and his son Anurag Thakur, MP from Hamirpur, Shah while addressing a gathering in Hamirpur said Congress leaders were seeking accountability from the government at the Centre but their own party was deeply entrenched in scandals when they were in power.
"During Congress tenure in Delhi, scandals worth Rs 12 lakh crore surfaced. Whether it was ISRO, 2G scam, helicopter scam, CWG scam, Adarsh scam, or coal scam, Congress leaders did not spare any sector," said Shah while addressing a rally from Gandhi chowk.
Referring to the infamous Gudia rape case in Shimla’s Kotkhai, Shah blamed Virbhadra for pushing the state to a poor 17th rank in the country in crime rates.
Referring to Rahul, who is currently campaigning in Gujarat, he said, "I have heard Rahul baba's speeches in which he is claiming that Congress is going to form the government in Gujarat. I can only say Rahul baba is daydreaming.” He said the BJP has been winning in other states one after another and will continue its winning streak under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Claiming that Dhumal was all set to become the next chief minister of Himachal Pradesh as BJP was going to win the election, he exhorted the gathering to give a massive mandate to the party. "The state can only progress if it has the BJP government in the state as well as in the Centre. You have been giving the mandate to the BJP and Congress alternatively, that's why the progress and development could not be consistent," he said.
While recalling contribution of the central government Shah mentioned that during Modi's tenure a grant of Rs 1,15,846 crore was given to the hill state which was two and a half times more than what the state got during UPA government's tenure. Shah also addressed a rally at Mandi and attacked Rahul and the Congress for corruption and bringing the development to halt.