Congress leader Rahul Gandhi asserted that the INDIA bloc will defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat, a stronghold of the ruling party, in the upcoming assembly elections.
Addressing party workers in Ahmedabad, Gandhi said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be defeated in Gujarat. “Together we are going to defeat them in Gujarat. We will defeat Narendra Modi and BJP in Gujarat just like we defeated them in Ayodhya,” ANI reported quoting Gandhi.
The Opposition leader charged people from Ayodhya were not invited to the consecration ceremony at Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. “The farmers of Ayodhya lost their land when the Ayodhya airport was built. The people of Ayodhya were upset that no one from Ayodhya was invited to the inauguration of the Ram Temple. The movement that was started by veteran BJP leader Advani, whose centre was Ayodhya... INDIA bloc has defeated that movement in Ayodhya,” he said.
Rahul Gandhi charged while industrialists like Ambanis and Adani were seen during the inauguration of the Ram Temple, the poor were invisible. “People of Ayodhya felt angry when they found that not a single local person was invited for the Ram Mandir's inauguration," he said. He also claimed that PM Modi wanted to contest from Ayodhya, but his surveyors advised him against doing so saying he will be defeated and his political career will end.