Amit Shah challenges SP-BSP alliance, says ‘bua-bhatija can’t stop BJP getting more seats’ 

Amit Shah.

Reacting to the speculation of imminent announcement of an alliance between political rivals – Samjwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party – in Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party president, Amit Shah, said that the bua-bhatija (aunt-nephew) alliance (implying a tie up between Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati) will fail to prevent the BJP from winning maximum number of seats from the state.

While addressing the BJP national convention, on Friday, Shah said, “I am in touch with the UP unit that they are ready to fight the battle of 50 per cent votes. Based on the work that we have done … our government has done, I can say that our numbers will go up from 71 to 74 but not slide to 72.”

Amit Shah has mocked the still-to-be-formed grand alliance of the opposition parties to fight the BJP in upcoming Lok Sabha election and called it as a desperate group of parties with neither a leader nor policy.

He said, “They know that Modi ji cannot be stopped and so they are forming an alliance despite having little in common.”

Comparing the election with third battle of Panipat, Shah said there is no room for complacency and no rest for party workers until the results of the general election is declared.

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