Giving a new twist to the Jinnah controversy Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that for Samajwadi Party, JAM means Jinnah, Azam, and Mokhtar while for BJP is it is Jan Dhan Aadhar and Mobile and it is up to people to choose what they want.
Shah was reacting to the statement of Akhilesh on Mohd Ali Jinnah while addressing a public meeting after laying the foundation stone for a State university in Azamgarh, the parliamentary constituency of Akhilesh Yadav here on Saturday. About 400 colleges of Azamgarh and Mau will be attached with this University, which will start operation from the next academic session.
“I want to give a certificate to CM Yogi Adityanath for making Azamgarh, a land of great personalities, free from the mafia as well as Machar (mosquito),” he said, adding that prior to Yogi, Azamgarh, as well as the entire region of Purvanchal (eastern UP), was suffering a lot from the dominance of mafia and mosquito menace.
“Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission) has made this region free from mosquitoes due to stringent steps taken by the Yogi government, helping the region check spread of various diseases,” said the Union Home Minister.
Shah reached Azamgarh in the afternoon after his two days visit to the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi where apart from chalking out poll strategy and giving responsibilities to party workers of different levels at a BJP meeting, he also inaugurated two-day Akhil Bhartiya Rajbhasha Sammelan.
Realising the strongholds of SP in Azamgarh and the good population of Rajbhars, a sub-caste of OBC, Shah frequently used the name of their ideal personality Maharaja Suheldev Rajbhar.
“Throughout his life, Maharaja Suheldev had fought against the invaders but the opposition parties had forgotten the teachings of that great personality during their regimes as they always focused to divide the society playing cards of casteism and Parivarvad apart from adopting the policy of appeasement,” he said, requesting the CM Yogi Adityanath to name the university after Maharaja Sheldev.
After BJP severed ties with Om Prakash Rabhar-led Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP), it was the second time when BJP heavyweights had used the name of Suheldev for wooing the Rajbhars. Prior to the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the party had organised a Rajbhar Sammmelan in Ghazipur which was addressed by Narendra Modi.
“Once Azamgarh had earned the bad image due to mafia and criminals but with the establishment of this ‘Saraswati Ka Mandir’ (university), now the youth will get higher education to reshape their future bright,” he said, highlighting the achievements of the Yogi government.
“A large number of welfare schemes which were launched by Modi were implemented in letter and in the spirit in UP due to Yogi’s sincere and honest efforts,” he said. Praising CM for helping the party to fulfill its all poll promises including setting up 10 new universities and 40 medical colleges, Shah said that in 2017 UP was the sixth biggest economy in the country but now it stands second and the number of unemployment has declined sharply.
The function was also attended by the CM Yogi Adityanath and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, among others.