Yediyurappa equates Amit Shah with Sardar Patel

Bagalkot, Jan 17 : Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Sunday equated Union Home Minister Amit Shah with Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, country’s first Deputy Prime Minister after India achieved independence and formed its own government at the Centre.
“Shah is the only leader who has grown in stature of Sardar Patel. Like Patel, Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are ushering in revolution and taking the country to greater heights,” said Yediyurappa in Kannada at a public rally in Karnataka’s Bagalkot town, about 475km northwest of Bengaluru.
Patel (1875-1950) was also the country’s first Union Home Minister and like Shah and Modi, hailed from Gujarat.
“Under Modi and Shah, the ruling BJP will win over 150 seats in the state’s next assembly elections in 2023, as our government is doing its best to ensure all-round development, especially of farmers despite the Covid pandemic,” asserted Yediyurappa at the party’s Jansevak Samavesh (public gathering).
Lauding Yediyurappa’s leadership at an official event in Bengaluru on Saturday, Shah said the BJP government would complete its term and return to power with absolute majority in the next assembly elections.
Though Yediyurappa formed the government on May 17, 2018, he resigned three days later on May 19, as the BJP fell 9 seats short of simple majority (113) in the 225-member House, as it won only 104 seats in the last assembly elections.