Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday likened the upcoming Lok Sabha polls to the epic war of the Mahabharata. Delineating the contours of the contest, he asserted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was leading the BJP-led camp working for the country’s development, while the “INDI alliance” under the Congress was full of dynastic parties practising the politics of appeasement and corruption.
He was speaking on the final day of the BJP’s two-day national convention meet being held in New Delhi, on the resolution “BJP: Desh ki aasha, vipaksha ki hatasha (BJP: Country’s hope, opposition’s despair)“ moved by him.
“Just as in the Mahabharata war there were two camps, the Kauravas and Pandavas, similarly today there are two camps ahead of the elections,” Mr. Shah said. “The INDI alliance is an alliance of all dynastic parties, which nurture the politics of dynasticism, corruption, appeasement, while the BJP-led NDA is an alliance of parties which follows the principles of the nation,” he said.
