A consensus of sort has emerged in the State unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party that senior leaders including MPs should stay away from giving controversial statements as it was affecting the development agenda of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“The people do not want to listen to communal speeches now. They want development. They want power. They want road and drinking water. The communal statements are only harming the party and it should stop at once,” senior leaders of the party said here on Tuesday.
They said that the statements by senior leaders like Yogi Adityanath and Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti have heightened the political temperature but has affected the development agenda of the Modi Government. “Is Yogi saying it for the first time,” asks a senior leader from Gorakhpur. “But he should not utter any words that can create controversy. He should realise that he is no longer in the Opposition party. He is part of a ruling dispensation and work according to the suggestions of the party senior leaders,” he said.
BJP State president laxmikant Bajpai said that these things will stop soon. “I hope better sense will prevail and leaders will only talk about development. Words have been communicated to the MPs and senior party leaders that they should not cross the lakshman rekha,” he said. Refuting the charges of party’s involvement in the controversy of conversion Bajpai said the party is against all deeds which are against the spirit of Constitution.