Karyakartas (BJP-RSS workers) like me cannot forget how helpless Mouni Baba (Manmohan Singh) used to look", the BJP president said.
"In frustration, they are seeking proof of the airstrikes. In the past, they sought to defend anti-national slogans inside the JNU premises in the name of freedom of expression. They even want to do away with the sedition law.. I want to tell Rahul baba, you may carry on with your efforts to get convicts like Lalu Prasad out on bail. But as long as Narendra Modi is in power anti-nationals will find themselves behind bars," Shah said.
Mocking at the opposition Mahagathbandhan for the lack of cohesiveness and absence of leadership, he said, I had got a very interesting SMS - if this formation gets a majority, Mamata Banerjee will be the Prime Minister on Monday, Akhilesh
Yadav on Tuesday, Mayawati on Wednesday, Lalu Prasad on Thursday, Chandrababu Naidu on Friday Deve Gowda on Satruday and the entire country will go on a holiday on Sunday.
Tell me, is this how a country can be run, is this how Pakistan can be given a befitting a reply and terrorism can be quelled, Shah asked evoking a loud no from the crowds.
Speaking about the development works by the Modi government, he said in the last five years, cooking gas has been brought to seven crore families and toilets to eight crore households. The Ayushman Bharat scheme, which provides an annual insurance health cover of Rs five lakh, has already benefited more than 23 lakh poor.
Let the Congress give an account of the 55 years it has enjoyed power in the country," he said.
He made a scathing attack at the RJD, an alliance partner of the Congress in Bihar.
"Memories of the 15 years long Lalu-Rabri regime, known as jungle raj because of the lawlessness that characterized it, still brings shudders to the people of the state. A change has been brought about by the efforts of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi,the BJP president said.
Modi had promised an assistance of Rs 1.25 lakh crore.