UP Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya said the BJP would form the next government in all the three poll-bound states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. He said Shivraj Singh would take oath of office as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh for the fourth consecutive terms after the counting of votes on December 11. Maurya was addressing the caste convention of the Dalit-Khatik on Tuesday. He said there was no difference between Maurya and Khatik communities as they were one and the same thing.
Maurya also sounded very optimistic about the construction of the temple at Ayodhya saying the “temple would be constructed during the regime of Prime Minister Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath”. He added the BJP would win all 80 Lok Sabha seats in UP in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
“The BJP represents the politics of hope and development while the Opposition is rudderless and without any agenda. The Opposition is like a wedding party without a groom. The Opposition are badly divided, full of candidates with aspirations to become the next Prime Minister,” said Maurya, adding “every other day, there is a new candidate staking claim for the top office in the country”.
“Come what may and let them pull all stops, the BJP will get 60 per cent of the Lok Sabha seats in the country and the rest of the political space will divided among myriad Opposition parties,” claimed Maurya. Maurya alleged that the welfare of Dalits and other backward castes was never on the agenda of all previous government at the Centre and the state. He asserted that it was the BJP which made sincere efforts for the uplift of the Dalit communities. He said there was no dearth of money for the economic welfare of Dalits as both the Centre and the state government had devoted substantial share of the exchequer for the poor communities. He said for the first time free LPG connections had been provided to over 4 crore families across the country of which over 50 lakh benefited in UP alone. Continuing his tirade against the Opposition parties, particularly the Samjawadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party, the Deputy Chief Minister said: “Had the previous government taken care for the welfare of Dalits and other socially and economically backward communities, they have by now joined the economic mainstream of the country like rest of other communities.”