Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday declared that the Bharatiya Janata Party doesn’t need crutches and runs on its own strength in Maharashtra, challenging the party cadres to ensure that the opposition was defeated during the ensuing local body polls in a manner that they are “not seen even with the help of binoculars.” Soon after Shah’s comments, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that friends are not crutches.

Responding to a reporter’s question on Union minister Amit Shah’s statement at a party event in Mumbai that the Bharatiya Janata Party in the state does not run on crutches but on its own strength, Fadnavis said, “Those who question this remark do not understand the meaning of `crutches’. Friends are not crutches.”

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