This is a comment from the Union Home Minister Amit Shah regarding Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who, as per this escalation of age, is 77 years old, should retire as he is old and has health complications.
In different meetings that Shah held in Odisha, he noted that the polls underway are significant for making Modi the PM for the third term and for taking Odisha back on track, stating that the state is destroyed by the BJD government headed by Patnaik.
Pledging that the BJP will make a young Odia-speaking ‘bhumiputra’ the state’s CM in the near future if the party formulates the government, Shah accused Naveen Babu of not taking proper health care, due to which 1. 5 lakh government vacancies have not been filled yet.
Responding to Shah’s remarks, the former finance minister of India and senior congress leader P Chidambaram sarcastically targeted the Home minister of India by asking if he was referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is 73 years and seven months old.
Chidambaram said that Shah would be “happiest” if his party did not form the government since he would then enjoy the position of the Leader of the Opposition, not Modi.
It has effectively injected a new dimension to the intense and sensitive electoral contest in the state where the BJP is…
