Hitting out at the “visionless opposition”, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said that they had nothing to offer to the people hence they indulged in propaganda.
“The opposition can go to any extent to vitiate the atmosphere in the country and the recent incidents are testimony to this fact,” Yogi said while virtually addressing the Bharatiya Janata Party office-bearers of booth division and sector of Ghatampur Assembly constituency where bypoll will be held on November 3.
Exhorting the BJP workers to publicise the achievements of the Centre and the state government as well as expose the opposition, he claimed that both the governments had done some historical works and they needed to be communicated to the masses.
The chief minister asked the party workers to go for intensive mass contact after setting up booth committees. He insisted that the plank of development was always going to work in these changing times of coronavirus pandemic.
Yogi said that the people should be told that in the BJP rule, employment in the state was on the basis of transparent merit of the individual and not on region or caste basis.
“More than 3.5 lakh youth have secured jobs on this basis during the last three years,” he said, adding that the same number of aspirants would get employment in the near future.
He further added that the government had proved that the criminals and mafias would not be allowed to raise their heads and they were running for shelter.
“Gone are the days of the previous jungle raj when industrialists wrapped up their businesses in the state. Instead, new investments are coming to the state. Improved law and order and availability of infrastructure in terms of electricity and roads have added to the disadvantage of industrialists to come to Uttar Pradesh,” he said.
The chief minister said that ever since Narendra Modi became the prime minister, some unprecedented development works had taken place in the country.
“In the times of global pandemic, his supervision and consistent support has proved to be extremely helpful,” he said.
Yogi said the UP government ensured the return of over 40 lakh migrant workers from across the country during lockdown and made sure that their needs were taken care of by distributing food packets and providing required medical help to them.
“The UP government also made arrangements to bring back 1,000 students from different parts of the country and made them self-reliant by providing them employment through Ono District One Product initiative,” he added.
Yogi also emphasised on the remarkable work done in Kanpur Nagar for making Ganga pollution-free, as the holy river was at the centre of people’s belief.
BJP state president Swatantra Dev Singh, in an apparent attack on the opposition, said that they had not been able to digest the all-round development of the country because their agenda had never been development-oriented.