On his visit to Gujarat, senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that his party will defeat the BJP in Gujarat in the next election the same way it did in Ayodhya in the recent Lok Sabha polls.
Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi made the remark during his speech addressing a party workers’ convention in Ahmedabad.
“They (BJP) have challenged us by threatening us and damaging our office. Let me tell you that we are together going to break their government like they damaged our office. Take it in writing that Congress will contest in Gujarat and defeat Narendra Modi and BJP in Gujarat like we did in Ayodhya,” Gandhi said.
Congress will win Gujarat and make a new start from the state, he said.
Gandhi also referred to the clash on July 2 between Congress and BJP members outside the Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan, Congress’s state headquarters in the Paldi area of Ahmedabad.
The confrontation occurred after members of BJP’s youth wing protested Gandhi’s remarks on Hindus. According to police, both sides engaged in stone-pelting, injuring five policemen, including an Assistant Commissioner of Police. In his speech, the former Congress chief also criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the BJP’s defeat in the Faizabad Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh, where Ayodhya is located.
“People of Ayodhya felt angry when they found that not a single local person was invited for the Ram Mandir’s inauguration,” he added.
He also claimed that PM Modi wanted to contest from Ayodhya, but his surveyors advised him against it, warning that he would be defeated and his political career would end.