BJP president Amit Shah launched a scathing attack on the Samajwadi party and the Bahujan Samaj party saying the ``politics of Bua and Bahtija’ has destroyed Uttar Pradesh and there was dire need for the change of guard in the state. BJP president also dubbed the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar led JD (U) and Congress as the `Vot katwa’ (vote splitter) parties in UP only to help the Samajwadi Party and the BSP.
Addressing the social media volunteers meet here on Saturday Amit Shah said `` UP had enough of the SP and BSP rule, both these parties perpetuated corrupt regime of the Congress led UPA at the Centre. Both Akhilesh and Mayawati were not so naïve to support the UPA government without any purpose and today both the Congress and the JD(U) were working as `Vote katwa parties to help the SP and the BSP’’.
"UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav is asking for the performance record of the Narendra Modi government. It’s for Akhilesh Yadav to furnish his own record of performance to the people as UP goes to polls in 2017. The BJP will give its record of performance to the people in 2019 lok Sabha elections’’, said Amit Shah.
Accusing the UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav of creating obstacles in the implementation of the Centrally sponsored schemes in UP, Amit Shah said ``out of 80 centrally sponsored schemes as many as 63 are to be implemented by the state government and UP government is creating hurdles in the implementation of those schemes meant for the poor and the downtrodden’’.
"India can never be a developed country without the development of UP. For the development of UP its imperative for the BJP to win the assembly election and form the government in UP. The party cadre should apprise the people of the state as to how for their narrow political ends the Samajwadi party government is not implementing the Centrally sponsored schemes for the uplift of the different sections of the society’’, said Amit Shah.
The IT cell of the BJP with the objective of using the social media to reach voters ahead of the 2017 polls had organised a day long `social media volunteer’s meet’ here on Saturday. BJP president Amit Shah and Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman addressed the meet. Nirmala Sitharaman made a detailed presentation of the various schemes of the Central government for the different sectors of the economy and social sector.
The aim of the meet was to develop a dedicated workforce of volunteers who will popularise the work done by the Modi government. The workforce will use social media to create an atmosphere against Opposition parties. The meet was attended by nearly 8,000 volunteers,
During the meet, Amit Shah launched the mobile application and a website of the state BJP unit. Information related to the BJP, like statements and speeches of senior party leaders on different issues and important decisions by the Modi government will be available on the site.
The event was held in two sessions at the auditorium in Ram Manohar lohia law University. In the first session, nearly 4,000 office bearers of BJP’s IT Vibhag from all 403 constituencies participated. The state BJP leaders also addressed the first session and discussed the strategy and fixed the target for taking the social media campaign to the village level.
In the second session, Nirmala Sitharaman made a presentation of the Modi government’s work and achievements before the them. A BJP leader said the new volunteers will connect six crore people with the BJP through applications like WhatsApp as well. They will share text, videos, audios regarding works and policies of the NDA government, as well as the BJP’s ideologies.
Earlier in the day Amit Shah addressed a workshop for the media department office bearers of the state BJP office. The workshop was attended by the state, regional and districts units of the media department.