Rajnath Singh and BJYM president Poonam Mahajan in Secunderabad on Saturday. (PTI Photo)
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday took a dig at the Congress and its allies, saying that by aligning with the Congress the allies would all be destroyed and they would be forced to launch a #MeToo-like campaign against the Congress.
Addressing BJP workers at the Atal Yuva Maha Adhiveshan in Hyderabad, Singh said, “Those aligning with the Congress should be careful of the deceptive nature of that party. They will be destroyed because of their association with the Congress. Later, they may have to start a campaign like #MeToo against the Congress.”
“Jo bhi Congress ke saath gaya, usko mitne se duniya ki koi taakat nahi bacha paayi. Baad mein kahin aise haalat na ho jaayein, saari vipakshi partiyan gathbandhan kar lein aur bad mein jab Congress se dhoka kha jaayein, toh MeToo campaign chalane ke liye majboor ho jaayein,” he said.
Claiming that all political parties fear the growing influence of the BJP, he said they now want to fight the polls together. “The parties can form an alliance, however big it is, but the parties should have the right agenda,” he said after inaugurating the national convention of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth wing of the BJP, here. “They do not have any agenda associated with national interest. They have only one agenda, ‘stop Modi’,” he said.
Highlighting the Union government’s achievements, he said India was among the fastest growing economies in the world with the NDA in power.
During the last about four-and-half-years of NDA rule, no major terror attack has taken place in the country and the credit goes to the young personnel in the Army and other security agencies, the minister said. Asserting that the nation was now secure, he said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shown decisiveness and cited the example of “surgical strikes” across the LoC.
Speaking at the convention, Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb highlighted NDA government schemes, including those for providing housing, electrification and LPG connections, that, he said, helped the poor in a big way.
Singh later interacted with workers of the BJP and BJYM.