Highlights: No need for ordinance on Ram temple for now, Congress delaying the case, says Amit Shah

In an exclusive interview with Zee News Editor-in-Chief Sudhir Chaudhary, the BJP chief said that each seat in India is important for his party.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah said on Friday discussed a range of issues - 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Assembly elections 2018, Ram temple construction in Ayodhya and Jammu and Kashmir politics, among others - in an exclusive interview with Zee News Editor-in-Chief Sudhir Chaudhary.

While the BJP chief asserted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA will retain power in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he said that the work done by Centre and BJP-ruled state governments will ensure party's victory in Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.

Referring to the growing clamour for a law or ordinance on Ram temple construction in Ayodhya, Shah said that since the Supreme Court had said that it would hear the title case in January, 2019, there was no need of an ordinance for the same for now.

On the issue of recent political development in Jammu and Kashmir, where the state Assembly was dissolved by Governor Satya Pal Malik soon after PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti declared that she would stake claim to form government with the support of National Conference and Congress, the BJP president alleged that the three parties were trying to mislead people.

Here are the highlights of the interview:

# Whenever elections come, there are bound to be renewed attacks.

# When a government takes a big step like GST implementation, there's bound to be teething problems. But we were sensitive to them and looked into all the concerns.

# The whole of BJP is standing like a rock behind Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

# We had not talked about Acchhe Din for opposition parties, we had talked about Acchhe Din for people of the country.

# There will be talks against PM Modi and government in the run up to the elections, but it will not impact the prospects of the BJP.

# In Lok Sabha elections, we will perform well in West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Odisha and north eastern states.

# The acceptance of Modi ji is such that people have not left any scope of any alternative.

# PM Narendra Modi is a popular leader, he is not a brand. A brand fades, but a popular leader never fades.

# CBI director Alok Verma and CBI special director Rakesh Asthana were sent on leave so that a neutral probe could be conducted. Two top officers had made corruption allegations against each other.

# Congress governments have in the past even removed RBI chiefs, there is no conflict between Modi government and RBI.

# Congress governments never took any step to prevent influx of illegal immigrants for so long. Do they even bother about country's development and resources?

# If the Supreme Court has decided to hear the case in January, there is no need for an ordinance on Ram temple as of now.

# If we remember, Kapil Sibal said in court that Ram temple issue must be decided after Lok Sabha elections. Therefore, it is clear that it is the Congress party that wants the hearing in Ram temple case to be deferred.

# We will solve the Ram Mandir issue as per provisions of Constitution, says Amit Shah.

# Congress president Rahul Gandhi must explain the basis of his information on Rafale deal. If the Congress knows it all, they must become a party to the case in Supreme Court.

# We are confident that BJP will win 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

# The results of Assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh will be a combination of work done by Narendra Modi government and respective state governments.

# In Rajasthan, there will be a considerable role of ground work done by Vasundhara Raje. In Madhya Pradesh, the work done by Shivraj Singh Chouhan will play a key role.

# The parties in J&K got an indication that the Assembly would be dissolved and hence they made an attempt to mislead people.