Amit Shah took to the dais at the opening ceremony of the Yamuna revival projects in New Delhi, blasting Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi for what he called the Congress party’s “foreign visits” and predicting a 30‑year absence from power.
Shah’s remarks came at a time when the BJP is gearing up for the next general election and the opposition is already plotting a comeback. He accused Congress of protecting “illegal infiltrators” under the guise of vote‑theft allegations, a claim that echoes earlier accusations from the party’s own history of losing state elections before the NDA’s rise.
The minister cited the conduct of elections in Kerala, Telangana, Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu as evidence that the Election Commission’s voter lists were reliable wherever Congress won, but that they were “unacceptable” in states where the party lost. He further warned that if courts ruled in favor of Congress, they would be “good”, but if they ruled against the party the verdicts would be “unacceptable”.
Shah also turned his ire toward the Aam Aadmi Party, calling it a “politics of excuse” and claiming that its governance in Delhi had failed to clean the Yamuna or address Punjab’s drug crisis. He promised the BJP would eradicate the drug menace by 2029 and that AAP would be wiped out from Punjab.
The speech, delivered at a flagship infrastructure launch, signals a no‑tolerance approach from the BJP towards the opposition’s policy critiques and sets the stage for a hard‑edge campaign as the next general elections loom on the horizon.