Confident of BJP win: Amit Shah

Home Minister also says Rahul Gandhi

Bengaluru (PTI):

Home Minister Amit Shah expressed confidence on Saturday that the BJP will win 15-20 seats more than the halfway mark in Karnataka assembly polls and asserted that its support base remains intact despite defection by some party leaders, noting that historically its rebels have not won and “this will prove true this time also”.

With the Congress targeting the central government over Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from Lok Sabha following his conviction in a defamation case, Amit Shah during an interview said that “no family is above the law in India and the law is above all”.

Replying to a question on Gandhi playing “victim”, he said, “We never asked Rahul Gandhi to disrespect the OBC community. He himself decided not to apologise.

“The law under which he was convicted was

HOME MIN TO ADDRESS PUBLIC RALLY AT TELANGANA’S CHEVELLA TODAY U nion Home Minister Amit Shah will be addressing a public rally at Chevella near here on April 23, BJP sources said on Saturday. His visit is part of ‘Parliament made by the Congress government. Then prime minister Manmohan Singh tried to withdraw that law but Rahul Gandhi himself tore down the ordinance. Now he should not play the victim. No one should think that any family is above the law.”

Prabhas Yojana’ programme, the BJP sources added.

The ordinance, if passed by Parliament, would have spared any convicted MP from immediate disqualification.

On Karnataka assembly polls scheduled for May 10, he said the BJP will get 15-20 seats more