Speaking out loud and expressing his anger over the ongoing anti-CAA protests, Home Minister Amit Shah urged people to vote for the saffron party so that there is “no Shaheen Bagh” in Delhi.

Speaking at a gathering of BJP’s social media volunteers in the national capital, Shah said, “Press the button of lotus so hard that the current makes the Shaheen Bagh protesters run away on the very evening of February 8.”
“Your vote to the BJP candidate will make Delhi and the country safe and prevent thousands of incidents like Shaheen Bagh,” Shah said while campaigning for the BJP candidate in Delhi’s Babarpur constituency.

Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh has become the epicenter of anti-CAA protests, with hundreds of women and children braving Delhi’s cold winter, and protest against the controversial law, for over a month now.

All attempts by the police to persuade them to leave have failed. Last week, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said in an interview that he supported the demonstrators.
Shah’s comments irked Congress leader P Chidambaram, who then took to Twitter to express his anger over the statements. “Only those who despise Gandhi-ji would want to get rid of Shaheen Bagh. Shaheen Bagh represents the essence of Mahatma Gandhi,” senior Congress leader and former Union Minister P Chidambaram said in a series of tweets. “Getting rid of Shaheen Bagh amounts to getting rid of Ahimsa and Satyagraha,” he said.

On Sunday, Amit Shah also attacked the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress. “Are you their vote bank? Why do Rahul Baba and Kejriwal want to save tukde tukde gang that raised slogans for fragmentation of the country. They do this due to fear for their vote bank,” he said at another rally.

Taking a dig at the Aam Aadmi Party and Congress, the home minister said that the opposition is blindfolded and cannot see beyond their “greed for votes”.

“Even now they say they are with Shaheen Bagh. A video has come out today, you can see it. They have no shame, in their greed for votes, they have blindfolded themselves.”