Want to win elections on ideology, not by unleashing violence: Amit Shah on Lok Sabha

During the debate over the Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2022, in Lok Sabha, Shah said the BJP wants to form government everywhere and that is why it fights polls.

"Why did you go to Goa, why are you going to Tripura. You have the right to go, I don't say don't go, every party must go with their ideology, programmes, performance to all places, this is the beauty of democracy," Shah said in an apparent response to remarks made by Trinamool Congress MP Saugata Roy.

He said only those afraid of losing power can have an objection to it.

"I want to say that on the basis of our programmes, ideology, popularity of leadership and the performance of our government, we want to fight polls and win everywhere," Shah said.

"But we don't want to grab power by killing workers of rival parties, carrying out series of murders, by raping wives and daughters of (rival) party workers. This is not our culture," he said in an apparent reference to the spate of violence in West Bengal and the ruling Trinamool there.

Taking a swipe at the Congress and the Trinamool he said these parties run for families and don't hold internal polls for years.

"First hold polls in your party, then talk about country," Shah added.