Amit Shah says BJP will remove Muslim reservation
Shah was in Telangana to address a public rally at Siddipet for the party candidate for Medak Lok Sabha constituency, M Raghunandan Rao.
The BJP’s victory in the Northeast has changed the perception that only the Congress can survive there, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday.
Singh, along with BJP president Amit Shah, have attended the swearing-in-ceremony of Conrad Sangma-led coalition government in Meghalaya, where the BJP is also part.
“There was a perception that only the Congress can survive in the Northeast. But now that perception has changed with the BJP’s victory in the Northeast,” he told reporters here.
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In the recently held Assembly elections, the Congress was ousted from power in Meghalaya while the party could not win a single seat in Tripura and Nagaland.
The BJP got absolutely majority and a two-third majority along with its ally IPFT in Tripura, it won 12 seats in Nagaland and will be part of the coalition government along with Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) there.
In Meghalaya, the BJP won two seats and is now part of the Sangma government.
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