Don’t keep red diaries, Amit Shah tells Rajasthan farmers in dig at Gehlot

JAIPUR: Union home minister Amit Shah took a dig at Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot at the Kisan Sahkari Samallen in Gangapur City on Saturday, advising farmers not to keep red diaries as they might anger Gehlot. “Gehlot Sahab appears to fear the colour red. Do you want to know why? Well, because those red diaries apparently document corruption amounting to crores of rupees,” Shah said.
Expressing dissatisfaction with the pro-Congress slogans chanted during the event, Shah said sending a few individuals to raise slogans would not help.Shah said, “Main Gehlot Sahab ko kehne aya hoon… Zara bhi sharm bachi hai toh laal dairy ke mudde par istefa dekar chunav ke maidan mein ayeye (I came here to tell Gehlot Sahab… If you have an iota of shame left, resign your post and then enter the electoral battlefield).”
Directing those who continued to stand despite Shah’s appeal that they sit down and raise slogans, Shah said, “I wanted to tell those raising slogans that had they (Congress) worked on the space mission, they would not have gotten the chance to raise slogans here.”
Referring to the slogans as instigating him to indulge in politics at the farmers’ meet, he said he had come to Rajasthan not to do politics. “But they have started politics and made me do the same. Our Dileep Bhai is a wise man. The day before the IFFCO Kisan Sammelan, he sent me a folder. I said don’t keep this folder in the programme as Ashok Gehlot will be angry. Dileep Bhai asked me, ‘Why will Gehlot be angry?’ I told him the colour of the folder is red,” said Shah.
Giving credit to PM Narendra Modi for the successful Chandrayaan-3 mission, Shah said, “For crores of years it has remained a mystery — what unfolds on the southern pole of the Moon. Modi gave a new lease of life to our space programme, making India the first nation in the world to land on the (lunar) south pole.”