Congress is ATM of false promises, lacks 'neta' or 'neeti': Shah

BJP president Amit Shah Sunday termed the Congress an "ATM" of false promises, which had no leader or ideology.

Addressing a rally at Waidhan in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh ahead of the November 28 state Assembly polls, he also took a swipe at the opposition party for failing to announce the name of its chief ministerial candidate.

"The Congress is an ATM from which false promises and announcements come out, but no solution to any problem emerges," Shah said.

"(Congress chief) Rahul Gandhi, Kamal Nath and Digvijay Singh are talking about the party forming government in Madhya Pradesh, but they have failed to decide on its leader," he added.

"They have forgotten the Congress's rule, when they turned the state into a Bimaru (backward) one, devoid of any infrastructure," the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief said.

During the Congress rule, the budget of Madhya Pradesh was Rs 21,600 crore, while chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan transformed the state into a developed one and raised its budget to Rs 1.85 lakh crore, he said.

Even "three generations" of Congress leaders would not be able to carry out something like the 2016 surgical strikes (by the Army) on terror launchpads (across the Line of Control), Shah added.

The BJP-led government at the Centre was committed to flushing out infiltrators from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, he said.

"Farmers got loans at an 18-per cent interest rate under the Congress rule in the state, while the BJP government has brought the interest rate to zero.

"Things have changed drastically in the last 15 years. Today, we have roads, water, health and welfare schemes for everyone, including farmers," Shah claimed.

Addressing another rally at Churhat, he said, "Unlike the BJP, the Congress is a party without a neta (leader), neeti (policy) and siddhant (principle or ideology). It has only one leader, who sits in Delhi."