Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has hit back hard at Union Home Minister Amit Shah for his comments over his age and health . Speaking to ANI on a campaign trail, Naveen lashed out at Shah and the BJP as he was quoted as saying , “There is a limit to the amount of lies BJP can tell. As you can see I am in very good health and I have been campaigning all over the state for months.”
Earlier, It may be recalled Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who is 77 years old, should retire due to his “advanced age and health issues”, while promising that the BJP will make a young Odia-speaking ‘bhumiputra’ the CM if the party is voted to power in the state.
Hitting out at bureaucrat-turned-politician V K Pandian, a close aide of Patnaik, without taking his name, Mr Shah said a “Tamil babu” is ruling the roost in Odisha and people will vote for the BJP to free the state from “babu raj”.
Addressing back-to-back election rallies in Odisha ahead of the third phase of simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly polls in the state on May 25, Mr Shah said the ongoing polls are to make Narendra Modi the PM for the third term and restore Odisha’s glory, which has been “destroyed” by the Patnaik-led BJD government.
