LUCKNOW: Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday lashed out at the previous Samajwadi Party(SP) government for providing electricity only on Muharram, while denying it to people on the occasion of Ram Navami and Sri Krishna Janmotsav.
Addressing an election meeting in Ballia, Shah flayed the SP for pursuing politics of appeasement to meet its own political goals. "If people voted for the SP again, electricity will not come to UP," he said.
Shah hit out at the SP saying that during its regime goons used to make "katta", or country-made pistols, in Bundelkhand, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi is establishing a defence industry to make shells. He also accused the Samajwadi Party for pushing the youth in the direction of crime.
Assembly elections 2022: Complete coveragePoll scheduleDetailed coverageUP electionsPunjab electionsUttarakhand electionsGoa electionsManipur elections"Akhilesh made UP number one in dacoity, loot, murder and rape.... Today, Atiq Ahmed, Mukhtar Ansari and Azam Khan are in jail. If you ride the bicycle (SP’s poll symbol) even by mistake, will they remain in jail? If you want to free UP from mafia and 'bahubali', then only the BJP government can do it," he asserted.
Exuding confidence about BJP coming back to power, Shah reiterated that the promises made in the party’s election manifesto will be adhered to.
"In the manifesto for the last election, we had said that the government would retrieve the (encroached) land of the poor and the government in every district. Shivpal (Yadav) ji used to laugh at it and used to say that the grabbed land is never returned. CM Yogi Adityanath removed the encroachment from the government land worth Rs 2,000 crore and made houses for the poor," Shah said.
He criticised the Congress for giving the slogan of "garibi hatao" (in the 1970s) but failed in removing poverty. "Instead they got involved in removing the poor people," he remarked, adding that the Modi government has fulfilled all the promises made for the welfare of the poor.
