BJP will win all polls from now on: Shah

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : May 15 2018 | 10:05 PM IST

Asserting that people have voted for a 'Congress-mukt' Karnataka, BJP president Amit Shah today said his party's winning streak will continue and it will win all polls, including the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

Addressing party workers after the BJP emerged as the single largest party in the Karnataka Assembly election, Shah said it was the 15th election which his party had won since it came to power at the Centre and hit out at the Congress for expressing "happiness" at the results.

The tally of Congress has been reduced from 122 to 77 and Chief Minister Siddamaraiah lost from his traditional seat, and barely managed to win from another, he said, mocking the opposition party.

Half of the members of Siddamaraiah cabinet have lost, he said.

Shah accused the Congress of using the "most immoral politics" by joining hands with outfits such as the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) and Popular Front of India (PFI) which, he claimed, were involved in anti-national activities and a danger to the country's security.

"Congress used politics of caste to divide the people and tried to incite Dalits on SC/ST Act in Karnataka," Shah said in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several other senior leaders of the party.

The winning streak of the BJP will not stop and it will win all polls from now on and notch up a bigger victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls than it did in 2014, he said.

Shah said the state has shown trust in Prime Minister Modi's "clean governance" and rejected the Congress' "divisive politics".

He accused the Congress of using money and muscle power in Karnataka and added that the party was rejected by people of the state.

Earlier, Shah tweeted, "Like rest of the nation, the great land of Karnataka has shown its unwavering trust in PM Narendra Modi's clean, transparent and pro-development governance."

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First Published: May 15 2018 | 10:05 PM IST

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