BJP doesn’t win elections by killing political rivals: Amit Shah slams TMC in Lok Sabha

New Delhi, Mar 31: "The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wins elections based on its ideology and not by violence against its rivals", Union home minister Amit Shah said. His comments came in the reference to the Birbhum massacre in which nine people were burnt alive following the killing of a local Trinamool Congress leader.

 

Speaking in Parliament during a discussion on the Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2022, the minister said, “We want to contest and win elections on the basis of our programs, ideology, popularity of our leaders and our performance. Yes, we want to fight polls and win everywhere. But, we don’t want to come to power by killing the workers of the Opposition. We don’t want to win through a series of murders. We don’t want this by raping the wives and sisters of workers. This is not our culture.”

 

 

“Every party should go everywhere with their ideology, stand, programme and performance. That’s the beauty of democracy. What’s objectionable here? If a party thinks its candidates should be elected to power on the basis of their ideology and popularity, what is objectionable here? Only those who fear the loss of power can be objecting to this. Advocates of democracy can never object to it,” Shah added.

 

 

The Birbhum killings have led to a massive political showdown between the BJP and TMC. Earlier on Wednesday, a five-member BJP fact-finding committee submitted a report to party president JP Nadda attributing the violence to “state-sponsored extortion”.