Amit Shah slams Rahul Gandhi over celebrating Yeddyurappa's resignation says, his new theory is to see victory in defeats

BJP's national chief Amit Shah mocking out at Congress President Rahul Gandhi over celebrating BJP's BS Yeddyurappa's resignation in Karnataka as a victory on Saturday said the mandate was to get rid of Siddaramaiah and claimed that such coalition will not last long.

“If someone is seeing its victory in defeat, then who can stop him. The BJP has already won the Karnataka elections and the people of the state have clearly given their mandate to get rid of Congress,” he said at a programme of India TV.

Amit Shah said that Rahul Gandhi has started a new tradition of celebration even after party’s debacle.

“He (Gandhi) has propounded a new theory that how to see a win even if his party is defeated. They won in nine Lok Sabha by-polls and they celebrate it as their victory but why they forget that we have snatched 11 states from them,” he said.

The BJP chief said that the BJP will not make any efforts to topple the government in Karnataka.

“Such government will not last long in the state. Congress leaders have themselves not accepted their alliance with JD-S,” he said.

Mr Shah states that BJP asserted winning 130 seats in Karnataka elections but the number of seats won was not less. “It is an achievement for us. We wanted to expose the Congress government before Karnataka and I believe we have succeeded in that. We had approached the people of Karnataka with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s four years’ achievements and the way Siddaramaiah government had been exploiting the state and we emerged victoriously,” he said.

Responding to allegations of horse-trading by the opposition leaders in Karnataka, Shah said: “This would not have been the result had we offered to bribe and buy the MLAs of other parties.”

Over Gandhi’s allegations that the Narendra Modi government has waived off the loans of industrialists, he said: “Rahul Gandhi should name one businessman whose loans we have waived off, or he should accept that he misleads the people of the country.”