Ahead of the crucial Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls next year, BJP president J P Nadda on Saturday threw an open challenge to opposition party leaders to give an account of work done during their respective tenures in the state.
He also launched ‘Booth Vijay Abhiyan' in a bid to repeat the party's performance in the 2017 state polls.
“I challenge the leaders of the SP, BSP and Congress to come forward with an account of their respective terms and our booth-level workers are ready for an open debate with them over the same. None of the governments led by these parties did as much work as has been done in over four years of the Yogi Adityanath government,” he said at a virtual function to launch the party's Booth Vijay Abhiyan.
According to information received from BJP headquarters, Nadda issued directives to more than 15 lakh workers of the party at 27,700 Shakti Kendras (party units) through the Booth Vijay Abhiyan.
The saffron party had clinched 312 seats in the 403-member legislative assembly, decimating its rivals to form the government in the last assembly elections.
Claiming that the Adityanath government did in over four years what other governments could not do in 60 years, the BJP chief targeted the opposition parties for not extending enough support to people during COVID-19 pandemic.
“Amid the pandemic outbreak, these parties did politics only through tweets and virtual press conferences by confining themselves in closed rooms.
“History will remember that when people were in trouble, they (opposition leaders) turned themselves away from the people,” he alleged.