Team News Riveting
Lucknow, May 29
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday expressed confidence of winning over 70 seats out of 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh.
In an exclusive interview with leading national channel India TV, Shah said the BJP would surely increase its tally in Uttar Pradesh and break the record of the Lok Sabha election 2014 in the state.
“I’m seeing a strong wave in favour of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. People will be surprised after June 4. The tally in UP will improve to over 70. We will break 2014 record in Uttar Pradesh,” Shah said.
Shah said Prime Minister Modi was MP from Uttar Pradesh but he was not able to do much for the state as the Samajwadi Party (SP) government under Akhilesh Yadav’s regime did not cooperate. “When Yogi Adityanath became chief minister in 2017, PM Modi took UP’s infrastructure and other development projects into his hand and the results can be seen today”, he added.
Shah said Yogi took some bold measures to fix deteriorating low and order situation in the state. After 1960s for the first time, people of Uttar Pradesh are feeling safe because of the good law and order situation in the state, he added.
Later, while addressing Maharajganj rally, Shah took a jibe at the Samajwadi Party and Congress, saying they have decided to blame electronic voting machines for their defeat in the Lok Sabha polls. At a public meeting in support of party candidate Pankaj Chaudhary in Maharajganj, he also claimed that the BJP has crossed the majority mark in the first five rounds of polls.
“The counting is on June 4. In the afternoon the two ‘shehzade’ (Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav) will hold a press conference and say we lost the election because EVM was defective,” he said.
“Modi has crossed 310 seats in five rounds. Rahul baba you will not get even 40 seats and the other ‘shehzade’ (Akhilesh Yadav) will just get four seats,” he said.
