Amit Shah and Election ka Jumla.

Amit Shah and Election ka Jumla.

When BJP President Amit Shah gave a straight forward answer to a question about the so called promise of PM Narendra Modi to deposit Rs. 15 lakhs in everyone's account, he would not have imagined the furore it was going to cause in future.
What wrong did Amit Shah say?
Nothing.
To the question by the media as to when the Govt would deposit Rs. 15 lakhs in everyone's account, Amit Shah had answered that it was an election idiom or rhetoric.
Amit Shah answered it in Hindi by saying that it was an " election jumla."
The opposition was swift to twist his answer and harped on the word 'jumla' as if Amit Shah had committed blasphemy and that Modi had lied to the people of the country.
Actually, Amit Shah answered nothing wrong.
He said that what Modi used to say in his speeches was an election idiom or rhetoric.
What is an idiom ?
Let us understand:

Idiom
ˈɪdɪəm/

noun

1.
a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g. over the moon, see the light ).

Meaning of an Idiom: A traditional way of saying something. Often an idiom, such as “under the weather,” does not seem to make sense if taken literally.
Someone unfamiliar with English idioms would probably not understand that to be “under the weather” is to be sick.

So what did he mean when Modi said that if so much of black money was brought back to India and distributed to everyone, atleast 15 lakhs would go into everyone's account ?

By this example, Modi was focussing people's attention on the amount of corruption done by the Congress and NOT promising to actually deposit that amount in everyone's account.

Maybe, Amit Shah's choice of word - jumla - had two meanings and gave a chance to the opposition to twist the meaning.
But Congress going to town ( another idiom) and doing 'Jumla'Din or shouting Jumla Sarkar is a case of ' Ulta Chor, kotwal ko daate' - a thief criticizing the police man.

@ Dayanand Nene