New Delhi, May 19: BJP president Amit Shah today questioned the Congress's right to criticise the Narendra Modi government on job creation.

"The Congress has no right to ask questions, given the performance of 10 years of the UPA government," Shah said at Shikhar Sammelan, a day-long programme on ABP News, owned by the publishers of The Telegraph, to mark the third anniversary of the Modi government.

Shah was responding to a question on former finance minister P. Chidambaram's charge about poor job creation during the NDA regime.

The BJP chief denied the charge, saying that the "Start-up" and "Mudra bank" schemes had created "self-employment" opportunities and generated crores of jobs.

On Kashmir, he said the problem was limited to only "three and a half districts" and expressed confidence that the situation would soon be brought under control in the Valley. He said Kashmir had seen worse situations in the past.

Shah termed Modi as the country's most popular leader post-Independence and said that under his decisive leadership, India was on way to emerging as a "global leader".

Asked about Mamata Banerjee's charge that the CBI and the ED were being misused, Shah said Trinamul leaders were seen taking bribe on television and there was no way they could deny it. "Do they want that no action should be taken?" he asked.

Shah also revealed that he had been writing a diary every day since 1980. He, however, declined to discuss the issue in detail and said the diary writing was for his personal guidance.

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath was another star attraction at the event in which ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad, Kiren Rijiju, Prakash Javadekar, Smriti Irani, Jitendra Singh and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi participated. Opposition leaders such as Lalu Prasad, Akhilesh Yadav and Jyotiraditya Scindia also took part. Asaduddin Owaisi was another speaker.

Adityanath said his government was following the Modi model of governance and trying to change the face of the state. He lauded Modi and said the Prime Minister was focused on development without discriminating on the basis of caste, creed or religion and his government too was doing the same.

Union minister Mahesh Sharma said those who take the law into their hands in the name of cow protection would be punished.