UP Bharatiya Janata Party said Opposition parties deprived of power and pelf were desperate to forge an alliance ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha election to prevent Narendra Modi from being elected as the Prime Minister for the second term.
BJP state president Mahendra Nath Pandey, addressing the social delegate convention organised by the Scheduled Castes Morcha of the party, said: “The BJP has the alliance with the common people so all efforts by Opposition parties to come on one platform cannot prevent Narendra Modi from becoming the Prime Minister again after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. He urged members of the morcha to ensure that the BJP won more than 73 Lok Sabha seats in UP in 2019. In 2014, BJP, along with its ally Apna Dal, had won 73 out of the total 80 Lok Sabha seats in UP.
Training his guns at the Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and Congress, the state BJP president said: “The Congress exploited the name of Mahatma Gandhi for political gains but discarded his philosophy and the grand old party consigned the ideas of Gandhi to the dustbin long ago.” He said both the SP and BSP were following the footsteps of the Congress and were embroiled in corruption and promoting the rule of one family in the party. “The SP and BSP both exploited the poor and the downtrodden and also formed governments but the welfare of these sections of population were never on the agenda of both the parties and they vigorously pursued the agenda of looting the state exchequer for personal gains,” the state BJP president alleged. “Is Mulayam Singh Yadav pursuing the ideals of veteran socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia by promoting his family where as many as 67 persons of his family occupied different official position,” Pandey said, adding: “The BSP is no different and loses no time in shunning the ideals of Dr BR Ambedkar.”
He said contrary to the misconduct of the SP, BSP and the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi soon after taking over the office launched a large number of schemes and projects to ensure a positive change in lives of the millions of Dalits, tribals, poor and the downtrodden people. He said Yogi Adityanath government was also vigorously pursuing the agenda of development in the state for the welfare of the poor people.
MP and state president of the morcha Kaushal Kishore said schemes like free LPG connection and free electricity connection for each rural household, Mudra Yojana, Jandhan Yojana and universal health scheme Ayush had immensely benefited the poor. He said the parties like the SP and the BSP during the last three decades used the SC and the OBCs as mere vote banks and only the BJP had sincerely worked for their overall welfare.