Blaming the Congress for spreading rumours in Delhi over the amended Citizenship Act, Home Minister Amit Shah today held the rival party responsible for violence in the last few weeks as he said: "It's time to teach Delhi's tukde-tukde gang a lesson." He asked the people in the national capital - where elections are due early next year - to punish the Congress.
"Citizenship Amendment Act was discussed in the parliament. Nobody (the opposition leaders) said anything... Once they were out (of parliament), they started misleading people," Mr Shah said while addressing an event in Delhi.
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"I want to say that it's time to punish the tukde-tukde gang led by Congress. They are to be blamed for the violence in the city. People in Delhi should punish them," he further said, raising the poll pitch. "Tukde-Tukde" is a term coined by the right-wing parties to attack the opposition parties and those who support them.
Mr Shah also attacked the ruling Aam Admi Party and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. "Arvind Kejriwal had promised he would not take a bungalow or a car and several other such things, but he took them all. His government has not completed 80 per cent of the welfare work that he promised in 2015," Mr Shah said. The ruling AAP launched a counter-attack in a tweet listing the Arvind Kejriwal government's achievements.