Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday asserted that this Lok Sabha election is a contest between those who constructed the Ram Temple in Ayodhya and those who opened fire at Ram bhakts. At a poll meeting in Deoria in support of BJP candidate Shashank Mani Tripathi, he accused the opposition of stalling the construction of the Ram Temple for over 70 years and said the temple could only be built because of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

 

“This election is between the one who constructed Ram Temple and those who opened fire on Ram Bhakts,” he said, referring to the firing at karsevaks in 1990 when Mulayam Singh Yadav was the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister. Earlier, at a rally in Maharajganj, 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. “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 at the rally in support of party candidate Pankaj Chaudhary. He said the Opposition does not have a PM candidate and say they will have five PMs in five years. “This is not a general store but a nation of 130 crore people. Can such a PM work?” he asked.