Rahul is president of ‘corrupt’ party, will never be PM: Assam CM Sonowal

‘Rahul Gandhi is president of a corrupt party. He will never be prime minister, however much he may dream’

Politics news: Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Thursday dubbed the Lok Sabha polls as a battle between an “honest, hardworking and committed” leader in Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the head of a “corrupt” political party in Rahul Gandhi.

He claimed at a BJP press conference that the Congress president Rahul gandhi will never become the country’s prime minister, however much “he may dream”. Citing the BJP’s win in the recent local polls in the north eastern state and also the loss of Congress in Mizoram assembly elections, Sonowal said the region has expressed a vote of no confidence in the Congress which, he alleged, “looted it for 60 years”.

No prime minister has done as much for the region as Modi has,he asserted,adding that it will soon become a main centre of business activities in India. “Rahul Gandhi is president of a corrupt party. He will never be prime minister, however much he may dream, ” he said.|Click Here: BUSINESS STANDARD OR BS)

Under the Modi government, more bridges have been built than earlier,he said,noting that Modi will also inaugurate the country’s largest rail cum road bridge in Assam on December 25. Since the BJP dispensation came to power in the state in 2016, it has detected 4 lakh bogus cards under the employment guarantee scheme, 2.63 lakh fake ration card, he said, alleging that the previous Congress government used them for corruption…

After BJP’s defeat in 3 states, only 51% Indians now live under its rule

With yesterday’s election performance, the Congress now has a government or is part of the government in five states–Punjab, Karnataka, MP, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh

ASSEMBLY ELECTION RESULTS 2018:  With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) losing power in three Hindi-heartland states–Madhya Pradesh (MP), Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh–the population under BJP rule has dropped by 254 million, from nearly 888 million (71% of India’s population) in 2017 to nearly 634 million (51% of the population) in December 2018.

The BJP now has a government–or is part of the government–in 16 states, up from seven states in May 24, 2014, when the party came to power at the Centre: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.

At its peak, the BJP had governments (or was part of the government) in 21 states. With yesterday’s election performance, the Congress now has a government or is part of the government in five states–Punjab, Karnataka, MP, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh–with 21% of the population, up from.two states with 7% population in 2017.

The Congress lost elections in Mizoram, where the Mizo National Front won 26 seats in a 40-member assembly. In Telangana, the incumbent Telangana Rashtra Samithi was voted back to power with 88 seats in the 119-member assembly.

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