<p class="title">Targeting the Gandhi family, BJP president Amit Shah on Tuesday claimed the prime minister's seat is reserved "by birth" in the Congress, wondering if a worker from that party could ever think of occupying the top post.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As the "brother" (Rahul Gandhi) has not married, so now the "sister" (Priyanka Gandhi) has come (in the political arena), Shah said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Shah claimed that in the BJP, a common booth worker like him could rise to the rank of party president and a 'chaiwala' (Modi) could became the prime minister.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I was a booth worker of the BJP. I rose to be the party president. The chaiwala has become the prime minister of the country, rising through the ranks," Shah said, addressing party workers here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Can any party worker from Congress ever think of becoming the prime minister? In that party that seat is reserved by birth," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A BJP worker need not take birth in a specific family to occupy high posts, he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Priyanka Gandhi was last month appointed AICC general secretary and in-charge of Uttar Pradesh East by Congress president Rahul Gandhi, ahead of the ensuing Lok Sabha polls.</p>
<p class="title">Targeting the Gandhi family, BJP president Amit Shah on Tuesday claimed the prime minister's seat is reserved "by birth" in the Congress, wondering if a worker from that party could ever think of occupying the top post.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As the "brother" (Rahul Gandhi) has not married, so now the "sister" (Priyanka Gandhi) has come (in the political arena), Shah said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Shah claimed that in the BJP, a common booth worker like him could rise to the rank of party president and a 'chaiwala' (Modi) could became the prime minister.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I was a booth worker of the BJP. I rose to be the party president. The chaiwala has become the prime minister of the country, rising through the ranks," Shah said, addressing party workers here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Can any party worker from Congress ever think of becoming the prime minister? In that party that seat is reserved by birth," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A BJP worker need not take birth in a specific family to occupy high posts, he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Priyanka Gandhi was last month appointed AICC general secretary and in-charge of Uttar Pradesh East by Congress president Rahul Gandhi, ahead of the ensuing Lok Sabha polls.</p>