Training his guns on the Samajwadi Party, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said it was responsible for killing of hundreds of Hindus in the Muzaffarnagar riots.
Asking the people to beware of the politics of appeasement, he said that voting for the SP alliance would be an insult to the innocents killed in the riots.
"The SP people have no right to be in power as they only harassed women and farmers and failed to ensure security for them," the chief minister said while interacting with the public in Baghpat district on Saturday.
He said, “More than 60 Hindus were killed and over 1,500 Hindus were put behind the bars during the Muzaffarnagar riots... This is the identity of SP. Their cap is stained with the blood of innocent Ram bhakts."
Yogi remarked that SP never had development-oriented thinking. "For them, development only meant construction of boundary walls of graveyards, not development of infrastructure like airports, highways, medical colleges and houses for the poor.”
He squarely blamed the previous SP government for patronising mafias, goons and terrorists looting money of poor and instigating riots in UP. “This time also these people have made goons and criminals and those with Talibani mindset their candidates. Their Kairana candidate of the SP still threatens people. ‘Lagta hai inki garmi abhi gayi nahi’,” he commented.
Appealing for public support for the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in Baraut, Yogi said that the period from 2012 to 2017 was a “period of darkness” for Uttar Pradesh.
Yogi also addressed the issue of women’s safety and said, “How was the situation before 2017 in Western Uttar Pradesh? Women safety was in danger, so much so that girls could not go to schools and Mulayam Singhji would say: boys make mistakes. Their sympathy is not with women and youth. Today it is a pleasure for someone to look at their sisters and daughters.”
While interacting with the public in Chhaprauli, Yogi said that the SP used to establish factories of firearms, while the BJP government was getting a defence manufacturing corridor built in the state.
“Earlier, there were instances of attacks on Kanwar yatras. Now, I used to send helicopters with instructions to shower flower petals on Kanwar yatras and stern action against anyone harassing any innocent participant of Kanwar yatras,” he pointed out.
Mocking at SP's election announcements like free electricity, Yogi said that when their government failed to provide electricity when in power, how was it to be expected that they would give electricity for free. There was no electricity during the previous regime, he said.
“We have given electricity for 24 hours and now the electricity rate of farmers has been reduced by half. Also, today no one dares to steal even the pump sets of farmers,” he added.
He took a swipe at the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party for issuing tickets to criminals, saying, “There is a competition between SP and BSP to give tickets to the biggest criminal. If these criminals become MLA, they will produce guns, not flowers and there is only one way to treat them, and it is by the bulldozer.”
Referring to the works of the double-engine government, Yogi said that it takes courage to work. “Those people who used to surrender in front of mafias and criminals, such people cannot run the state and they can only take care of the family. They are harmful for the state and its people,” he said.
Asserting that his government always ensured transparency in the recruitment process, Yogi said that earlier whenever there was any recruitment in government services in the state, the Saifai family used to go out for extortion. On the other hand, our government gave jobs to youths without any discrimination in a fair and transparent manner, he added.
He said that five years ago, there used to be an exodus of traders and youth from Western UP but today youth were getting employment, traders were safe and returning home.
Raising a question mark on the policy and intentions of the previous SP government in Baraut's meeting, Yogi said that before 2017, when the SP government came to power, the first decision it took was to withdraw cases against those accused of terrorist attack on Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya.
“We waived the loans of farmers as soon as the BJP government was formed,” he added.
In a jibe at the SP, Yogi said that the SP government also changed the name of pension of the poor and helpless and named it Samajwadi. “Now it is known where the public money used to go earlier. It came out from the walls of the house of a perfume businessman in a recent raid,” he said.