Modi’s carpet bombing will not help BJP in Rajasthan: Sachin Pilot

New Delhi: The ruling BJP continues to believe Narendra Modi’s final campaign push can tilt the scales in its favour in Rajasthan, but state Congress chief Sachin Pilot says “last-minute carpet bombing” by the PM will not make much difference.

“It is okay for the Prime Minister to go to Karnataka and criticise the Congress government and ask for votes for the BJP. But how can he as PM, or Mr Amit Shah, go to Rajasthan and dissociate themselves from Vasundharaji‘s government?” Pilot asked.

“They have to be answerable for the five years of government Vasundharaji has given. And she is the face of the BJP and the campaign,” Pilot told ThePrint in an exclusive interview.

“Going and making speeches etc. can work in some



places, but where you are the second side of the same coin, it’s difficult for people to fall for your speeches again,” he said.

“I am quite confident that despite the last-minute push the BJP and its troops will give in the campaign in Rajasthan, people will not believe that. I don’t think last-minute carpet bombing will make that much of a difference,” he added.

Rajasthan votes on 7 December. In the assembly 2013 elections, the Vasundhara Raje-led BJP stormed to power, winning 163 of the 200 seats. In the Lok Sabha polls that followed in 2014, the BJP won all 25 seats in the state. Since then, however, the rising unpopularity of the Raje government and a series of missteps have cost the party dearly, losing a string of assembly and Lok Sabha bypolls.