BJP president Amit Shah on Monday accused the Opposition of giving tickets to “bahubalis” (strongmen) in Uttar Pradesh, asserting that their presence will not have any impact as the Yogi Adityanath government has been acting tough against them. 

He also reiterated that the BJP Government, after coming to power, will scrap Article 370 of the Constitution which grants special status to Jammu & Kashmir.  

Addressing an election meeting in Pratapgarh, Shah said, “We want to remove Article 370 from Kashmir, but Rahul Gandhi does not want this... When Modiji’s government comes back in power, it (Article 370) will be abrogated.”

Attacking the Opposition on the issue of Kashmir, he said, “Omar Abdullah says there should be another PM for Kashmir... His friends are Mayawati, Akhilesh and Rahul Gandhi... All these together want to separate Kashmir from India.”

In Jaunpur, the BJP leader said his party will never indulge in vote bank politics nor compromise with the security of the country, “but Rahul, Akhilesh and Mayawati can do anything for votes”.

Shah alleged that “goons” of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) used to work as land mafias, but ever since the “anti-land mafia squads” were set up by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, encroachment of land has stopped.

“The people from the ‘grand adulteration’ have given tickets to ‘bahubalis’ in Uttar Pradesh, but such strongmen do not have an impact here,” he said addressing rallies in Chitrakoot and Pratapgarh districts.   The BJP has been referring to the Opposition alliance as “mahamilavati” (grand adulteration).