Vrindavan: BJP National President, Amit Shah, on Saturday literally set the party's strategy for its 'Mission UP 2017' by covertly projecting it as a fight between a party that protects terrorists and deshdrohis and a patriotic BJP, which had launched several "nationalist" campaigns including one for liberation of Ram Janam Bhoomi.
Using the recent controversies over JNU and revelations on Ishrat Jahan's encounter case, as a backdrop, the BJP chief questioned as to how anti national slogans can be considered as freedom of speech and said Rahul Gandhi should be ashamed of supporting such statements. "If these slogans are a freedom of speech, then what is deshdroh (treason)", said Shah in his inaugural speech at the opening of the two-day National Convention of Bhartiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM) here.
"Congress should also be ashamed that its vice president goes to the JNU campus and supports these slogans under the garb of freedom of expression", he said while asking Sonia Gandhi to let the country know as to what she thinks about her son's stand on the issue.
Shah devoted at least 5 minutes of his 25 minutes speech castigating Rahul Gandhi and the Congress for its stance on the JNU and reinforcing the BJP's patriotic credentials by recounting the party's "nationalist" campaigns - liberation of Ram Janam Bhoomi, freedom of Goa and Hyderabad, cow slaughter ban and fight against emergency. Though Shah did not touch upon Ishrat Jahan's case in his address, BJYM President, Anurag Thakur, who spoke before him, set the ground for it by accusing the Congress of "protecting terrorists" for petty political gains.
Once again flaunting the Hindu nationalist credentials of PM Modi, Shah said he was the first prime minister-elect to perform 'arti' on the ghats of Benaras and he had also visited Pashupati Nath temple in Nepal to seek blessings.
In an apparent response to Rahul Gandhi's recent jibe in the parliament describing Modi as an "authoritarian figure" who did not bother to consult his ministers, Shah said "in UPA government every minister used to operate as the prime minister. And unfortunately none of them looked upon the real Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, as the prime minister".
Dubbing Manmohan Singh as "mauni baba", Shah said, "for 10 years we had a prime minister who never spoke to the people. And now we have Modi who reaches out to the masses and toils round the clock to fulfill their aspirations".
On Congress's accusation of Modi being an 'out of the country PM', Shah said Dr Singh had made more trips abroad but no one ever took notice of them, as his written English speeches lacked substance. "He used to deliver his Thailand speech in Malaysia and vice-a-versa and in contrast Modi speaks in his mother tongue and the world takes notice of it", he said.In his address, Shah recounted various developmental schemes launched by the BJP government and said Modi had put the country on a fast track to development and it's only a matter of time when these would be visible on ground.
Referring to the recent exposes by intelligence officers in Ishrat Jahan's encounter case in his address, Anurag Thakur said these had proved how the UPA government had conspired to protect terrorists in their bid to corner Modi. "What can the nation expect from a party which protects terrorists and jails its own intelligence officials to pursue its sinister political agenda", he said adding that the "script" of the Ishrat Jahan's case would beat even Bollywood screen plays.
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Using the recent controversies over JNU and revelations on Ishrat Jahan's encounter case, as a backdrop, the BJP chief questioned as to how anti national slogans can be considered as freedom of speech and said Rahul Gandhi should be ashamed of supporting such statements. "If these slogans are a freedom of speech, then what is deshdroh (treason)", said Shah in his inaugural speech at the opening of the two-day National Convention of Bhartiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM) here.
"Congress should also be ashamed that its vice president goes to the JNU campus and supports these slogans under the garb of freedom of expression", he said while asking Sonia Gandhi to let the country know as to what she thinks about her son's stand on the issue.
Shah devoted at least 5 minutes of his 25 minutes speech castigating Rahul Gandhi and the Congress for its stance on the JNU and reinforcing the BJP's patriotic credentials by recounting the party's "nationalist" campaigns - liberation of Ram Janam Bhoomi, freedom of Goa and Hyderabad, cow slaughter ban and fight against emergency. Though Shah did not touch upon Ishrat Jahan's case in his address, BJYM President, Anurag Thakur, who spoke before him, set the ground for it by accusing the Congress of "protecting terrorists" for petty political gains.
Once again flaunting the Hindu nationalist credentials of PM Modi, Shah said he was the first prime minister-elect to perform 'arti' on the ghats of Benaras and he had also visited Pashupati Nath temple in Nepal to seek blessings.
In an apparent response to Rahul Gandhi's recent jibe in the parliament describing Modi as an "authoritarian figure" who did not bother to consult his ministers, Shah said "in UPA government every minister used to operate as the prime minister. And unfortunately none of them looked upon the real Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, as the prime minister".
Dubbing Manmohan Singh as "mauni baba", Shah said, "for 10 years we had a prime minister who never spoke to the people. And now we have Modi who reaches out to the masses and toils round the clock to fulfill their aspirations".
On Congress's accusation of Modi being an 'out of the country PM', Shah said Dr Singh had made more trips abroad but no one ever took notice of them, as his written English speeches lacked substance. "He used to deliver his Thailand speech in Malaysia and vice-a-versa and in contrast Modi speaks in his mother tongue and the world takes notice of it", he said.In his address, Shah recounted various developmental schemes launched by the BJP government and said Modi had put the country on a fast track to development and it's only a matter of time when these would be visible on ground.
Referring to the recent exposes by intelligence officers in Ishrat Jahan's encounter case in his address, Anurag Thakur said these had proved how the UPA government had conspired to protect terrorists in their bid to corner Modi. "What can the nation expect from a party which protects terrorists and jails its own intelligence officials to pursue its sinister political agenda", he said adding that the "script" of the Ishrat Jahan's case would beat even Bollywood screen plays.
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