{"id":457313,"date":"2024-05-26T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/05\/26\/on-oppositions-religion-based-campaign-allegation-a-counter-by-amit-shah\/"},"modified":"2024-05-26T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T12:02:00","slug":"on-oppositions-religion-based-campaign-allegation-a-counter-by-amit-shah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/05\/26\/on-oppositions-religion-based-campaign-allegation-a-counter-by-amit-shah\/","title":{"rendered":"On Opposition&#8217;s &#8220;Religion-Based Campaign&#8221; Allegation, A Counter By Amit Shah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"On Opposition's 'Religion-Based Campaign' Allegation, A Counter By Amit Shah\" alt=\"On Opposition's 'Religion-Based Campaign' Allegation, A Counter By Amit Shah\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2024-05\/oktjeneg_amit-shah_625x300_17_May_24.jpeg?im=FaceCrop,algorithm=dnn,width=650,height=400\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Union Home Minister Amit Shah has denied Opposition allegations of religion-based campaign &#8212; with a caveat. If canvassing against reservation for Muslims and reaching out to voters on scrapping of Article 370 and implementing a Uniform Civil Code is religion-based campaign, then the BJP has done it and will continue doing so, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also asserted that the NDA will cross the 400-seat mark and dismissed Opposition&#8217;s criticism of Electronic Voting Machines as a way of explaining their impending defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Citing some of the previous assembly polls, including the ones in Telangana, West Bengal and Himachal Pradesh, where the BJP lost, he said, &#8220;If those elections were fair, then this election is also fair&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whenever the opposition loses an election, they raise some questions. There is zero possibility of rigging in EVMs and they want an election which can be rigged,&#8221; he told news agency Press Trust of India in a wide-ranging interview.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress&#8217;s questions about the polling process are aimed at covering up Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s failure, he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you see defeat, you start crying in advance and try to find excuses to go abroad. This can&#8217;t go on and on. They want to go on vacation on June 6. So, they are telling something or the other,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(With PTI Inputs)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/on-bjps-religion-based-campaign-allegation-an-amit-shah-counter-5749810\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Union Home Minister Amit Shah has denied Opposition allegations of religion-based campaign &#8212; with a caveat. If canvassing against reservation for Muslims and reaching out to voters on scrapping of Article 370 and implementing a Uniform Civil Code is religion-based campaign, then the BJP has done it and will continue doing so, he said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":457314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5922,68916],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}