Alleging that the on-going feud in the Samajwadi Party family was a drama to confuse people, BJP president Amit Shah said that corruption was at the peak in the present Akhilesh Yadav regime and there is an urgent need for change of guard.
“The present SP Government is doing nothing except promoting corruption and goonda raj. All the schemes sent from the Centre for implementation in the State for the poor and downtrodden get stuck in lucknow as the Government here is not interested in serving the people,” he said while addressing a Maha-Parivartan rally here on Monday.
“The infighting in the SP family is just a drama and it was an effort to divert the attention of the people from their corruption and misrule,” he and to buttress his point said that the lucknow-Agra expressway was a glaring example of corruption by the Akhilesh Yadav Government.
“Recently, Prime Minister Modi had laid the foundation stone for four National Highways connecting all four dhams of Uttarakhand. Surprisingly, the cost of the NH 4 which will have several tunnels under the mountains and is longer than the lucknow-Agra Expressway, is costing less, which proves the corruption of the UP Government,’’ he said.
Asking people to give BJP a chance as they have dealt with corrupt Governments for the last 10 years of SP and BSP he said: “UP is like a power transformer which is burnt out and now it should be replaced. If BJP comes to power I can promise that within a week’s time all the goondas will either leave UP or mend their ways,” he said.
Shah said during the past two and a half years of the rule, the Modi Government has launched 90 schemes for the poor and downtrodden as the rate of one scheme per week, but it is unfortunate that none was implemented fully in the State. The infighting in the SP family led to non implementation of the proposed insurance schemes for the farmers, he said.
About demonetisation, he said all the Opposition leaders now have just one name on their lips-that is only ‘notebandi’. “Earlier these people used to ask what Modiji had done on black money but now they are asking why has PM taken this action. They have lost their black money in one go,” he said.
Union Minister Uma Bharti also blamed that the fight in the SP family was just an eyewash. “The SP only wants power and for that they can go to any extent,” she said, adding that demonetisation has totally ruined Mayawati and hence she was attacking Narendra Modi.
BJP State president Keshav Prasad Maurya said a BJP Government will bring an honest and transparent governance in the State.