LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday mounted a fresh attack on the Samajwadi Party asking if it would apologise to Hindus and the Ram Bhakts for ordering firing on them in Ayodhya on November 2, 1990.
“They now find themselves in a dock before people. What we used to say about Ram Janambhoomi got upheld by the Supreme Court (in 2020),” Yogi said while speaking at the Samijik Pratinidhi Sammelan hosted by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
"The same people will soon be out to disguise people by calling them followers of Ram. They will peddle lies and raise misleading slogans to woo the people," he said, terming the opposition, ostensibly the SP ranks, as "Ram Drohis" and "Poshak of Atankwaad" (nutritive of terrorism).
Yogi said people should have faith in the current national leadership which strives for "Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat".
Emphasising that the image of India has improved significantly after 2014 when BJP came to power at the Centre under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi, Yogi hit out at the previous Congress-led UPA dispensation over alleged scams and leaving people in a state of complete "dissatisfaction" and "anarchy".
"Except during the tenures of former prime minister and BJP stalwart Atal Behari Vajpayee, there was no one who wanted to discuss 'Bharat' and 'Bhartiyata' between 1947 and 2014,” he said, asserting that even the poor, farmers, traders, youth and women were never the priority of the previous governments.
"It was only the notion of 'my family’ which attained prominence at the national and at the state level,' Yogi said, in a veiled attack on the Congress.
"These people constructed big 'havelis’ (mansions) for themselves but did not bother for the poor,” the chief minister added.
"It is only under the government led by PM Modi that three crore poor got a house and eight crore people got a free gas connection,” he said, accusing the Congress ranks of indulging in black marketing of LPG.
Yogi further said his government could provide a robust law and order situation in the state because a "double engine" government was in place and there was no room for any individual, community of a particular caste or religion.
