Playing down the much hyped alliance between Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that it was a gathbandhan between two most corrupt parties who had joined hands not to save India but to save their own identities.
“People know the true character of these two parties. They are caste-based parties. The parties which do not have democratic values within their organisation, how can they save or talk about Indian democracy. The high sounding words the leaders of these parties uttered are hollow and meaningless,” Yogi said while speaking at a private function here on Sunday.
The Chief Minister said that these were anarchic elements and the Bharatiya Janata Party was competent enough to wipe them out.
“We do not face any challenge in Uttar Pradesh. The BJP and its ally will win a minimum of 72 seats this time. We have chalked out our strategy and are confident of implementing it,” he said.
Taking a jibe at the newly-formed alliance, Yogi said that SP president Akhilesh Yadav was caught in a mire after declaring the pact because he does not know whom to project as the prime minister.
“He had been advocating his father Mulayam Singh Yadav as the next prime minister of the country but now he is forced to say Mayawati will be the prime minister,” he said.
“How can such alliance be legitimate? Therefore, I am saying that BJP will defeat this alliance,” he added.
BSP chief Mayawati and SP president Akhilesh Yadav have announced an alliance between their parties for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls with BSP and SP sharing 38 seats each. The Congress has been kept out of this pact which was announced on Sunday and it has decided to contest all the 80 parliamentary seats in UP on its own.
Yogi said if Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav were so serious about this alliance why did they not merge their parties. “Yadi dil mil gaye to party bhi mil jaani chahiye,” he said.
On the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya, the Chief Minister said, “The BJP had said that it would resolve the issue within the constitutional framework. The matter is in the Supreme Court. We are making repeated appeals to the apex court that this issue must be resolved at the earliest for the sake of development of the country.”
“If there is anyone who can resolve this issue, it is the BJP. Those who created this problem, cannot resolve it,” he added.