Congress will be wiped out from India soon: Yeddyurappa

Senior BJP leader BS Yediyurappa on Thursday said the Congress party will soon be wiped out from the country after its defeat in the assembly elections in five states. Addressing reporters here, the BJP veteran said, “Out of the five states where elections were held, only in Punjab the Congress was in power. There too he lost his land. This indicates that the Congress will soon be wiped out from the country. Taking a jibe at Congress state president DK Shivakumar, who was the party’s special election observer in Goa, Yediyurappa said the Congress leader was deployed to check poaching in the neighboring state. Congress is in bad shape.

According to him, the results were on expected lines and the BJP retained the states where it was in power. The people of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa expressed their solidarity with the BJP, the senior BJP leader said, adding that the results were a sign that the people of the country have accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership. Congratulating Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and party’s national president JP Nadda, Yediyurappa thanked the people of five states for continuing their support to the BJP. He claimed that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s development work and hitting out hard on anti-social elements and mafia helped him win the election for the second time.