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After winning Rajya Sabha polls, senior Congress leader, Ahmed Patel on Thursday has said that it was BJP that made the contest a ‘prestige issue.’ He also looked confidence that his party would win Gujarat assembly polls due later this year.
Patel, who won Rajya Sabha seat from Gujarat said, the victory had encouraged the Congress and filled the cadre with new energy. “I am sure we will also win Gujarat. The BJP made it a prestige issue, it is their loss.”
Patel also hit at the PM Modi and BJP president, Amit Shah accusing them of “misusing” central probe agencies. “Even the BJP is afraid of these two people. One is a constitutional authority and another is an extra- constitutional authority. You know who these two people are. All agencies are being misused,” Patel said without naming anyone.
Patel said the youth should now stand against BJP and make them “quit the seat of power” (gaddi chodo). “They promised two crore jobs every year and 50% more profit to farmers. They promised to cut inflation and corruption. But they failed on every front,” Patel said.