If communal tension persists, BJP will form govt in UP: Shah

If communal tension continues in Uttar Pradesh, BJP will form the next government in the state, party president Amit Shah has said.
He also hit out at Congress President Sonia Gandhi for blaming his party for the rise in communal clashes in the country and her charge that over 600 communal incidents had taken place during the NDA regime.
Shah instead put the blame on the "one-sided approach" of the Uttar Pradesh police for the rise in communal tension.
"Maharashtra and Haryana are going to the polls. Why is there no communal tension? Why only in UP? If communal tension continues in UP, I can tell you, BJP will form the next government in UP with a clear majority," Shah told Rajat Sharma on his programme 'Aap Ki Adalat' on India TV, according to a release from the channel.

The BJP President also debunked media reports about Ministers in the Narendra Modi government as "misleading and baseless" and charged the media with making an unsuccessful attempt at tarnishing the image of the BJP-led government.
"A large section of media is trying to tarnish our government's image but has failed." he said while talking about "baseless" reports on Home Minister Rajnath Singh's son and Union Ministers Prakash Javadekar and Dharmendra Pradhan.

"If the newspapers think their reports are correct, let them at least name the ministers and the sources of their reports," he said.
Denying reports of any differences in the BJP government over who was "Number 2", he said, "Rajnathji is No 2 and it is clear from the seating arrangements. There is no confusion."

Notwithstanding the the setback the party had received in the recent Assembly bypolls, Shah claimed the BJP will get a two-third majority in Haryana and will form governments in Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir as well.
"Though our party suffered some reverses in the recent Assembly bye-elections, I am confident that the forthcoming Assembly polls in four states will make everything clear (doodh ka doodh, paani ka paani). All these four states will have BJP governments," he said.
Shah said, "Formation of governments in these four states will be the achievement of the next stage of our agenda of Congress-free India (Congress-mukt bharat).