Raking up the ghost of Muzzafarnagar riots, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that those responsible for the bloodbath and exodus of traders were now questioning the BJP, whose Government is committed to providing security to the people.
“Those people who were responsible for Muzaffarnagar riots are now in the Opposition camp and are contesting elections against us as a unified force. These are the same people who patronised criminals that led to the exodus of traders from Kairana. Our Government is urging traders to return to their native place as we have exposed the criminal-political nexus of the previous regime,” Yogi said while addressing a poll rally in Shamli on Thursday.
The CM said that the BJP was the only party which could give a riot-free and crime-free State.
“We will not allow communal riots to happen in this region and any criminal act would be dealt with iron fists. The region, which during the previous regime, transformed into a haven of criminals, has been sanitized and people have started living sans fear,” he claimed.
Yogi and his deputy, Keshav Prasad Maurya addressed a poll meeting in Shamli — a part of Kairana lok Sabha constituency, where bypoll is slated for May 28.
This was the second election meeting of Yogi in Kairana and the earlier rally was addressed by him at Gangoh on May 22.
BJP leader Hukum Singh’s daughter Mriginka Singh is the BJP candidate for the Kairana bypoll. Hukum Singh’s death necessitated the by-election.
Yogi said that late MP of Kairana, Hukum Singh raised the issue of exodus from Kairana and Kandhla. “After the BJP government came to power in the state, traders, who had left their native places are coming back,” he said.
Realising that payment of cane dues was a big issue in the region, the CM said that his government was committed to paying the entire cane dues and recently Rs 984.88 crores were distributed among farmers.
“The problems which we are facing now are the problems of previous government that we inherited,” he said.
Yogi said that the issues of lawyers and Anganwadi workers are present due to the apathetic attitude of the last regime.
The CM announced that his Government has opened the doors for private entrepreneurs to invest in UP. “Private players have promised an investment of Rs 4.68 lakh crore in the State.
If it comes true, then more than 35 lakh youths would get jobs,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Election Commission refused to ban the proposed public rally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Baghpat on May 27 — a day before the bypolls.
EC sources said that the Commission cannot restrict the PM’s programme as Election Model Code of Conduct is only enforced in Shamli and Saharanpur districts under which the Kairana lok Sabha seat comes.
The Rashtriya lok Dal had objected to the PM’s rally at Baghpat, a day before the Kairana polls, claiming that the move was to influence the bypolls.