Bharatiya Janata Party president JP Nadda on Friday lauded the Yogi Adityanath government and credited the chief minister for turning Uttar Pradesh into one of the leading states in the country.
Nadda also exhorted party leaders and workers to ensure that the welfare schemes and programmes reached the people.
Nadda, on Friday, inaugurated the UP BJP executive committee meeting through virtual mode. He said four years ago the state was “afflicted by appeasement politics and a particular caste used to get benefits while the others faced harassment.
“There was nothing in the name of development. The state had become a centre of casteism, nepotism and corruption. Today, we can say with pride that in four years, UP has become one of the leading states of the country,” Nadda said.
“Uttar Pradesh was once a BIMARU state, now it is known for ease of doing business,” Nadda said, adding that curfew was a common thing in the past but there had not been a single riot under the BJP government.
Targeting the opposition, Nadda said, “Now we have a prime minister who created a task force to prepare two Covid vaccines in nine months. But some leaders having ‘band, mand, chhoti buddhi’ were saying that we should not be treated as rats, we are not guinea pigs, third trial has not been done, do not push us in the death trap.”
In an apparent reference to Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, he said, “A UP leader has termed it (Covid vaccine) as a BJP vaccine. It is altogether different that his father got the vaccine and after that he is also ready now.”
Those having such a small thinking had the ambition of becoming leader of the state, he said, adding that people had given a befitting reply to such leaders in the past and would do it in future too.
The BJP president also said it was the responsibility of party workers to inspire all people above 18 to take the vaccine and give a befitting reply to those terming it as a BJP vaccine.
With the Assembly elections slated for early next year, the BJP president exhorted party workers to take the government schemes to the common people and farmers. He also congratulated the state party unit, government and the party workers for a “massive victory” in the recent district panchayat elections.
“People have outrightly rejected the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party and given them the message to sit at home,” Nadda said and added, “I hope that BJP workers will fulfill the responsibility that has come their way with all their strength.”
Speaking about the COVID-19 pandemic, the BJP president praised the strategy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for bringing a lockdown at the right time to prepare for the pandemic. He also lauded the Yogi government’s test, trace and treat strategy and said his efforts were not only getting praise in the country but also at the global level.
Giving a detailed account of the works done after the pandemic-hit the nation, Nadda claimed 416 PSA plants were being set up in UP through the PM Cares Fund and asked party leaders and workers to visit hospitals, meet officials and make a good use of their political power to remove problems. On the vaccination drive, Nadda said the vaccine for TB, chickenpox and polio became available in the country when the entire world was almost free of these diseases.
Besides the BJP president , Union ministers Hardeep Puri, Smriti Irani, Mahendra Nath Pandey, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, VK Singh, Sanjeev Balyan, Kaushal Kishore Ajay Mishra , SP Baghel and party treasurer Rajesh Agarwal and Rajya Sabha member Sudhanshu Trivedi also joined the meeting through virtual mode.