The BJP has strongly refuted Delhi Chief Minister Aravind Kejriwal’s comment that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be replaced with Home Minister Amit Shah, next year after he attains 75 years of age. BJP leaders asserted that there is no question of replacing Modi as Prime Minister and he would continue in that position for the full term, next five years.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi won’t be replaced,” clarified Union Home Minister Amit Shah hours after Kejriwal’s ‘next PM debate’ took center stage in the political sphere. Addressing a press conference in Hyderabad, the Union Home Minister asserted that there is no confusion in the BJP over PM Modi’s leadership (as he won’t be replaced), but the opposition-led I.N.D.I. A bloc should stop spreading such lies.
Speaking over PM Modi’s continued leadership till 2029 and for the next coming elections, Shah, in a veiled reference, refuted the alleged BJP rule that the party leaders will retire after 75 years, claiming that there is no such provision in the BJP’s constitution. He said, “Modi ji will lead the country till 2029, and Modi ji will also lead the coming elections.”
“I want to say this to Arvind Kejriwal and company and I.N.D.I.A bloc that nothing as such is mentioned in the BJP’s constitution. PM Modi is only going to complete this tenure, and PM Modi will continue to lead the country in the future. There is no confusion in the BJP,” Shah added.
BJP National Spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi targeted the Delhi Chief Minister over the latter’s ‘Amit Shah to be next PM’ charge and said that Kejriwal is under the ‘effect of alcohol’ that he is saying such things.
“He said that PM Modi would become the Prime Minister, and after that, so and so would be made the Prime Minister. For this, I want to thank him for accepting today that Narendra Modi is going to become the Prime Minister of India again. Sometimes a person does not have complete control after drinking alcohol, and then the right thing comes out. Not only this, he also started telling the succession plan who would remain after PM Modi.”