All your jobs are coming to us, Mallikarjun Kharge tells Amit Shah – Times of India

AMRITSAR: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday reacted to Union home minister Amit Shah’s remark that the former was going to “lose his job (as Congress president)” after poll results, saying that he was in politics to serve the nation and didn’t belong to “the self-seeker lot”.

Shah had said at an election rally in Uttar Pradesh on Monday that Rahul Gandhi and his sister will not take responsibility for a Congress defeat after results and would instead pin the blame on Kharge.

“I came to politics in childhood not for a job but for sewa (service). (PM) Modi ka jitna umar hai utna mera umar politics mein service karney ka hai (I have served in politics for as many years as Modi’s age),” Kharge told mediapersons here, and quipped: “Waise bhi unka job khali honey wala hai. Theek bol rahen hain. Mera job chaley jana wala hai. Unke sab job humen milenge (Anyways, his job is going to be vacant soon. It’s true. My job is about to end and all those jobs will come to us.)”

Kharge criticised AAP govt in Punjab, saying “there was widespread frustration” among the youth of Punjab due to drug addiction and this coupled by deteriorating law and order situation is the “greatest challenge” to the state’s future today. “People are abandoning their villages, farmers are selling their land and parents are sending their children abroad to prevent them from falling into the trap of drug addiction.”

Alleging that BJP has been using various govt departments such as ED, Income Tax and CBI as “weapons to intimidate people”, Kharge said Congress govt would make policies that would “lessen the problems faced by industrialists”. He added that this would be guided by the Constitution.