Mounting attack on the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on Wednesday, said that the poor, the farmers, the youth and the women were never on the agenda of these parties and this was reflected in the way they treated them during their regimes.

“These parties have always misguided the youth of this wonderful state and now they are luring them with the ‘lollipop’ of jobs but the youth will not fall into their trap,” the UP Chief Minister said while addressing an election meeting in Madhubani during his last phase of election campaigning in Bihar Assembly polls.

He said that besides exploitation of youth and farmers, these parties also had a soft corner for terrorism.

“In order to hide their undoing, the Congress resorted to spreading anarchy in the country that is totally unacceptable in Narendra Modi’s rule at the Centre,’’ he said.

Yogi Adityanath came down heavily on the Congress and its allies for attacking the fourth pillar of democracy in the most blatant manner.

“The way a renowned journalist has been arrested in Mumbai reminds of the excesses committed in the country during the Emergency in 1975,’’ he said.

Yogi said that people used to ask him about the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya.

“Now, I proudly announce that the foundation stone of the temple has been laid on August 5, 2020 and soon there will be a grand temple,’’ he said.

Launching a broadside against what he called the ‘meek’ policies against terrorism, Yogi said that the abolition of Article 370 was the last nail in the coffin of terrorism and today the Indian soldiers did not hesitate in crossing the borders and killing terrorists in their homes.

“Pakistan has also accepted in its parliament that if they had not released Wing Commander Abhinandan, India could have attacked them. Their Prime Minister Imran Khan was sweating in parliament and they also confessed that their Army Chief Javed Bajwa was shaking and shivering with fear,” he pointed out. 

Praising the people of India for their resilience in fighting the novel coronavirus, Yogi said that the pandemic was not yet over and adherence to the protection protocol was very necessary.

The UP chief minister urged people to follow what Prime Minister Narendra Modi said about maintaining social distancing and using face masks for protection from coronavirus.

Yogi said the appeasement policies of the Congress had harmed all sections of society while by banning instant triple talaq, the Modi government had shown that this country would be run by the Constitution, not by fatwas before which the Congress had always remained helpless.

Terming the Bihar government as a ‘double engine’, Yogi Adityanath called upon the people to vote for the candidates of the National Democratic Alliance.

“With Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Centre and Nitish Kumar in Bihar, we are carrying forward the development agenda with the resolve of ‘EK Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat’ and the commendable work done by Nitish Kumar has given Bihar a new identity,” Yogi said.