Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, on his state-wide ‘Samajwadi Vijay Rath Yatra’ hit back at Union Minister Amit Shah over the latter’s JAM jibe. The Samajwadi Party chief said in Kushinagar on Sunday that BJP’s JAM stands for ‘jhoot’ (lies), ahankar (arrogance) and mehengai (inflation).
Earlier on Saturday, Shah had said in Azamgarh, “Modi has brought a JAM which is based on Jan Dhan bank accounts, Aadhaar and Mobile. But there is also a JAM of Samajwadi Party which means Jinnah, Azam Khan and Mukhtar. As the elections have approached, Akhilesh is seeing Jinnah as a great man.”
Akhilesh Yadav, while addressing a press conference in Kushinagar on Sunday, attacked the ruling BJP and said, “People have come out and I have got a chance to meet them during the yatra. The message that is going out is that people want change. BJP has not fulfilled its promise in the last four-and-a-half years.”
“BJP wants to implement the laws which will take away agriculture. Many farmers died against these laws but BJP doesn’t care. A BJP minister’s son is accused of mowing down farmers even though the court has also blamed the government,” Yadav said.
The SP chief claimed that the Kushinagar airport was also planned and conceived during the SP government. “UP’s big project is about to be inaugurated but that too is the work of the SP government, only the contractor has been changed,” he added.
“Someone may call us backwards, but we are forward with our thoughts. We think of development even after being backwards and they think backwards even after being forward. Today, UP is at the forefront in case of custodial deaths, ‘thoko raj’ is going on in the state,” Yadav said.
Taking a dig at Shah’s JAM jibe, the SP chief said, “They gave a new definition of JAM, however, it does not work in diabetes. The BJP’s JAM stands for ‘jhoot’, ‘ahankar’ and ‘mehengai’. Nobody lies more than the BJP. The development of Azamgarh was taken away. An institution was to be formed in Azamgarh but it was taken away by Baba. Baba did not build a medical college in Lucknow in the name of Atal Bihari ji. A university was announced in Azamgarh, but where is the budget?”
“The focus of the government should be education of the youth and getting them employment. The ‘name and colour change’ government is going to change. All the cases registered against Azam Khan Sahib are false. Anything can happen in the BJP government,” Yadav said.
Meanwhile, the district administration of Ghazipur has denied permission for the rally of the Samajwadi Party at Fakhanpura ground in Ghazipur on November 16.
As per the programme of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, he was to reach Ghazipur via Purvanchal Expressway on November 16.
The officials said that the administration has decided to deny permission for the rally in view of the inauguration of the Purvanchal Expressway on the same day by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Sultanpur. During the programme, the fighter jets of the Indian air force will also land and take off from the air strip on the highway, so the permission has been denied for the rally, they said.