LUCKNOW: After chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s ‘Abba Jaan’ jibe, it was the turn of Tejasvi Surya, national president of Bharatiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM), to lash out at the previous Samajwadi Party for following the principle of “Bhaijaan ke saath... Mian ke vishwaas aur apna vikas” in an allusion to its minority appeasement policy.
Surya made the remark while addressing the inaugural session of Bharatiya Janta Yuva Morcha working committee in Lucknow. “Unlike SP, the BJP follows the principle of ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas,” he said, insisting it was only after Yogi assumed power that development of all sections of society picked up pace in UP.
The fiery MP from Bangalore (South) also announced he and his team would visit all six organisational regions and 18 commissionerates to help BJP sweep elections. “UP elections have national repercussions. We will ensure BJP wins more seats than in 2017,” he said, taunting BSP and SP: “Haathi thak gaya hai...cycle puncture ho gayi hai”.
The BJYM national chief also referred to senior SP leader and Rampur MP Azam Khan and BSP MLA from Mau, Mukhtar Ansari as “gangsters”, who were now behind bars. Invoking former chief minister late Kalyan Singh as a Hindutva icon who played a pivotal role in “saving” Indian civilisation, Surya said, the firebrand leader had “integrity, character and commitment”.
“We, as functionaries of BJYM, need to follow the path shown by Kalyan ji,” Surya said, amid cheers from scores of BJYM workers gathered at the meet. At the same time, he credited PM Narendra Modi and scores of BJYM workers for fructification of the “500-year-old dream” of construction of Ram temple.
The lawyer-turned-politician reiterated that the majority Hindu community in India needs to exercise caution to prevent Talibanisation of India. “Or what is happening with the minorities in Afghanistan will happen with Hindus in India,” said Surya, who started his political career as a BJYM worker in Karnataka in 2013.
