Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said due to the sweeping law and order measures and steely resolve of his Government, the Mafioso and hooliganism had become a thing of past.
“These are the same mafia who were being harboured by the opposition parties and now they are on the run, begging for their lives,” Yogi Adityanath said while addressing public meetings in the bypolls-bound UP Assembly constituencies of Bulandshahr, Amroha and Tundla on Thursday.
He said that the western part of the state had been freed from the clutches of mafia elements and goons. “Their properties are being razed and they have no place left to hide themselves,” he added..
The chief minister said that the state government was continuously working towards transforming Uttar Pradesh into ‘Uttam Pradesh’ for the past three years.
“Not only the dues of sugarcane farmers are being cleared, the sugar mills that were shut down during previous regimes are operating with full capacity and productivity,” the chief minister said.
In a direct assault on former Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, the chief minister said that opposition leaders were sympathetic to anti-national elements.
“He (Rahul Gandhi) openly meets the members of the Popular Front of India (PFI). This clearly reflects his mentality towards anti-national elements,” he said and added, “This is the same PFI which has plans to instigate a series of riots in the country and those doing politics in the name of religion are trying to disturb the communal harmony of the country,”
In a reference to former prime minister Chaudhary Charan Singh, the chief minister said that he was a true crusader of farmers’ rights and well-being. “Now, the leaders are only doing lip-service in the name of farmers, in order to garner their votes,” he said.
Yogi Adityanath called upon the people to give a befitting reply to those who based their politics on caste and religion.
Castigating the opposition, he said it was their narrative which resulted in the Muzaffarnagar riots, the exodus of businessmen and traders from Kandhla and
Kairana and the killing of innocent youth like Sachin and Gaurav.
Charging the opposition with playing communal politics, the chief minister said they were against the kanwar yatra by raising the bogey of communal disharmony.
“Now, in the Bharatiya Janata Party rule, the kanwar yatra is taken out and flowers are showered on kanwarias,” he pointed out. Regretting that the person who donated all his property for Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) had been totally neglected, Yogi said the BJP government was going to set up a university in Aligarh in the name of Maharaja Mahendra Singh.