Elections 2019: Amit Shah sounds poll bugle at BJP meet
Live MintNew Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah launched the ruling party’s general election campaign on Friday, telling a forum of senior leaders of the party that the idea of a grand alliance was defeated in 2014 and was set to suffer the same fate this time around. Shah told the leaders on the first day of a two-day BJP national council meeting in Delhi that the National Democratic Alliance government had worked for the upliftment of socially and financially weaker sections. Shah said there were no corruption charges against the Union government and that even the Supreme Court had found nothing wrong with the deal, in an apparent reference to the allegations made by Congress president Rahul Gandhi on the Rafale defence deal. The BJP president pointed out that alleged economic offenders Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi and Vijay Mallya had left the country after the NDA came to power.