VRINDAVAN: BJP chief Amit Shah on Saturday attacked Congress Party over the JNU row, saying it should be “ashamed” of Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the campus, NDTV reported.

Addressing a meeting of Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha, BJP’s youth wing, he said the JNU row was about the party’s core issue of nationalism.

“A strange atmosphere has been created. Anti-national slogans are being projected as freedom of expression. Congress should be ashamed that its vice president goes to the campus and says these (slogans) should be heard as there is freedom of expression,” he said. “If these slogans are freedom of expression, then what is treason?”

Shah asked BJP workers to work hard to ensure that it remains in power at the Center for 25 years so that India could become the “vishwaguru.”

“In five years there could be development and high growth rate and borders could be made safe but if India has to be ‘vishwaguru’, then it is a must that BJP is in government for 25 years,” he said.

The BJP chief also took shots at former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying Singh visited more countries than Modi but his tours made little impact.

“He would read from two pages he carried with him which were written in English. At times, he would read the speech meant for Thailand in Malaysia and the one for Malaysia in Thailand... Modiji spoke in Hindi in the UN and the whole country felt proud,” Shah said.

PM Modi also attended Ganga aarti with pride and went to Pashupati Nath temple in Nepal to seek blessing, Shah said, underlining the party’s Hindutva credentials. The biggest work the Modi government has done is to make the country’s borders safe, he claimed.