If there’s one thing I know about voters it’s that they hate being taken for granted & almost always punish arrogan… https://t.co/74N3pCruKT — Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) 1536502462000

Do they plan to amend the Constitution in a manner that no free n fair elections wud be possible after that? https://t.co/bT73BDeOSH — Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) 1536543610000

NEW DELHI: Opposition leaders reacted sharply to BJP president Amit Shah ’s claim that his party will not only win the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, but will also remain in power for the next 50 years."Arrogance", National Conference leader Omar Abdullah responded to Shah's claim who was elaborating on the future strategy at the national executive meeting of his party in the national capital.Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal looked at Shah's statement with suspicion."Is BJP trying to amend the Constitution in a manner that no free n fair elections wud be possible after that?" the Delhi chief minister questioned BJP’s intent in a tweet.Yesterday, on the concluding day of BJP's two-day-long national executive meeting, Shah told his party workers that they would win the 2019 polls on the basis of its performance and the assertion was not borne out of arrogance, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad quoted Shah as having said."Shah told party workers that BJP will win because of PM Narendra Modi 's hard work… then no one can dethrone the party for the next 50 years," Prasad quoted Shah as having said.Referring to main rival Congress, Shah said the party had first formed government in 1947 and remained in power till 1967, indicating it was BJP's turn to repeat the feat now.Congress was quick to dismiss the BJP's political resolution, adopted yesterday during the meeting, as "arrogance Modi-fied" and "Shahi arrogance"."Deliberate elimination and deceptive exclusion of key promises of 2014 establishes that Modi-Shah duo has miserably failed to deliver," Surjewala was quoted as saying by news agency PTI."The BJP now stands for — 'Break, Jam & Perish’. ‘Breaking' the backbone of India's MSME's and shopkeepers through flawed GST, 'Jamming' the economy through demonetisation disaster and 'Perish' the future of youth and farmers," he said.Surjewala said shifting goalposts is ingrained in the DNA of the Bharatiya Janata Party.