The opposition parties, including Bahujan Samaj Party, Samajwadi Party and Congress, slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party government over taking out Jan Ashirvad Yatra instead of concentrating on extending help to the flood victims.
Targeting the Yogi Adityanath government over the Jan Ashirvad Yatra, BSP supremo Mayawati said that when a large part of the state was in the grip of flood and many people were seeking help to rescue them, the BJP was active in taking out the yatra.
“It would be better if the BJP leaders concentrate on helping and rescuing the flood victims instead of making self-propaganda,” Mayawati tweeted on Monday.
The BSP chief also criticised the government, saying that upset with the success of her party’s intellectual meetings (Prabuddh Sammelan), the government was creating obstacles before them in the name of flood control or even in the name of Covid protocol.
Raising questions over the Jan Ashirvad Yatra, Samajwadi Party leader Juhie Singh said, "Even though the BJP ministers plan to forcefully take the blessings of the people with the 'thoko policy’, fake FIRs and misuse of government machinery and public money, the common man will reject the insensitive government."
Congress state president, Ajay Kumar Lallu said that with the BJP beginning the Jan Ashirvad Yatra, the farmers were ready with sticks to welcome them as no minimum support price was given to them. He said the BJP had not done anything to benefit the farmers, and provide jobs to young people and security to women of the state.
“It is not Jan Ashirvad Yatra but should be better called Jan Apman Yatra (public insult procession),” asserted Lallu, adding that the BJP should take out ‘Kshama Yachana Yatra’ (apology march) and to seek apology from everyone -- farmers, women, youths -- as all had suffered a lot since the BJP came to power.
It may be mentioned that the Jan Ashirvad Yatra by seven new Union ministers from Uttar Pradesh will cover 3,500 km and pass through three dozen Lok Sabha constituencies and more than 120 assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh.
