BJP president Amit Shah today said there was no question of him leaving the party post and he was working “happily” and “wholeheartedly”.
Ending speculation that he would resign as party president if elected to the Rajya Sabha, Shah also denied that the BJP had broken any party in Bihar.
“It was Nitish Kumar who resigned from the post of the chief minister as he did not want to continue with the corrupt. Are we supposed to force them to continue?”
Shah, who arrived here Saturday on a three-day visit, answered a range of questions, including on getting elected to the Rajya Sabha and subsequently resigning as party president.
“There is no question of doing so. I have the responsibility of being the party president. I am happy, and I am working wholeheartedly. You people (media) please do not push,” Shah told reporters.
The BJP president exuded confidence that the party would come back to power with more strength in the next Lok Sabha election in 2019.
“BJP will romp home victorious with bigger strength than 2014 on the basis of its development and good governance of the Modi government, as well as the 13 state governments of the party in the country,” he said.
To a question on the NIA blaming cross-border trade for “terrorism”, Shah said that the BJP had no relevance as it concerned the security agencies, the Army and the Jammu and Kashmir government.