AGRA: Union home minister Amit Shah has warned that if Samajwadi Party comes to power in Uttar Pradesh, mafia raaj would return to the state and no one will invest in the Defence Industrial Corridor Aligarh.
Addressing a public rally in Aligarh’s Atrauli constituency on Wednesday in support of a BJP candidate Sandeep Singh— grandson of former governor late Kalyan Singh, the home minister said: "If Samajwadi Party or its mafia raaj returns, factories will shutdown".
He said during chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s tenure criminals had been dealt with strictly and the law and order situation in the state had improved to a great extent, as compared to earlier.
Shah said that criminals in UP are now found at three places— prison, outside the state and in the candidates list of Samajwadi Party. "Will they be able to develop the state in such a scenario," he questioned, adding that investors who were putting in their money in the state would flee, putting a question mark on the setting up of the defence corridor coming up in Aligarh with an investment of Rs 1,245 crore.
"The elections of 2014, 2017, 2019 have been the ones that changed the fate of Uttar Pradesh. The casteist governments of SP-BSP —bua-bhatija (aunt-nephew) could not do any good to UP and the state came into the category of BIMARU (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh) and became 'sick".
He added that during the tenures of the earlier governments, the lock industry of Aligarh had shut down, while the BJP government worked to bring about a change and promoted it under its one district one product policy.
