People will elect BJP in UP 2017 Polls: Amit Shah, Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls , BJP in UP,SP, samajwadi party, Congress, Narendra Modi, mayawati
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People will elect BJP in UP 2017 Polls: Amit Shah,Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls , BJP in UP,SP, samajwadi party, Congress, Narendra Modi, mayawati 
NEW DELHI: The vote in Uttar Pradesh will be for change... the voters' choice will be Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)... and BJP's fight is with Samajwadi Party (SP), a supremely confident Amit Shah told ET in an exclusive and exhaustive interview, the first given by the powerful BJP president on the coming UP election.
Sounding sure of a decisive victory, Shah told " Janata ne parivartan ka mood banaya hai, aur jab dibbey khulenge aap yaad rakhna (People are in the mood for change, and remember what I said when votes are counted)".
Shah spoke extensively on his plans and strategies for the crucial state election, as well as on a host of national political issues, from the Dalit question to the change of guard in Gujarat, and from the BJP-Congress relationship to government-judiciary ties.
On UP, Shah was firm that the fight is between BJP and SP. "Our fight is with SP," the BJP chief said and added that the media is probably not getting this. " Meri baat ko media hamesha thoda late hi gambheerta se leta hai (media usually takes some time to take my points seriously)," Shah said.
He categorically denied high-profile defections from Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) were indications that BJP had weakened Mayawati's outfit.
Dalit Issue
"No other government has done as much for UP as the Narendra Modi government," Shah said. The BJP chief doesn't see any evidence of spontaneity in Dalit agitation. "(Dalit) protests in Gujarat are 100% politically motivated," Shah said, posing thereby a strong political challenge to one current narrative, championed by both Opposition and some commentators, that the protests are ground-level questions directed at BJP.
BJP-CONG TIES
On the BJP-Congress relationship, Shah said, "Our relations are exactly as the relations between the ruling party and the Opposition should be." The two national parties have had a fractious relationship and only recently, with an agreement on the goods and services tax (GST) Bill, was there a sign of substantial cooperation. Shah did not see any differences between BJP and Peoples Democratic Party, its alliance partner in Jammu & Kashmir, on handling the situation in the Valley.
"On Kashmir, if you look at Mehbooba Mufti's statement, you will see that it is on the lines of whatever other political parties have said," he told.Shah also expressed confidence that the National Democratic Alliance government will have a long term. "Maine apne karyakartaon ko bola hai ki iss sarkar ka banney ka tabhi arth hai agar yeh sarkar 20-25 saal kaam kare (I have told our workers that the formation of this government makes sense if it gets to work for 20-25 years). Aap second par mat rukiye (Don't stop at just the second term)."