While the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) may have been targeting Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi for the farmers’ death in Gujarat, the saffron party candidate from Shahdol, Dalpat Singh Paraste, has come out in the defence of the Modi saying farmers’ condition will only improve after the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) forms the Government at the Centre.

The four-time MP from Shahdol, Paraste also took on Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi saying an inexperienced person won’t make a good prime minister. “Rahul Gandhi has never worked on ground with people, never known their pain and agony. Now you tell me, can someone so inexperienced be a good leaderIJ” he said.

Declining to answer the questions on the induction of tainted leaders BS Yeddyurappa and B Sriramulu, he instead threw the ball on the other side and left the final decision on public and their conscious.“The party has inducted people due to their winnability factor, it is on the people to decide the good and bad. We cannot differentiate on our own,” said the BJP leader.

“Nothing is hidden from the people, they are the ultimate decision maker,”he added.Showing confident of winning this election, he hit out at the Congress over corruption. “People are suffering because of the UPA’s incapable policies and rampant corruption. Unemployment has increased, inflation is very high,” he said.

He also accused the Centre of step-motherly behaviour towards Madhya Pradesh as it had a BJP Government.He hit out at the Centre’s compensation plans for the State farmers, who lost crops due to recent hailstorm and rains. Paraste pointed out that the Centre would only compensate farmers whose crops were damaged completely due to hailstorms and rains. He added that hailstorms caused Rs13,000 crore loss to the farmers in the State.