Singling out Samajwadi Party for instigating Jawahar Bagh riots during its tenure, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath termed the opposition party as “followers of Kans not Krishna” and said that they should fear Lord Krishna for giving birth to unscrupulous elements like Kans and for burning the state in the fire of hatred.
“I am dedicating this power project at Harduaganj (Aligarh) and Lord Krishna must be telling some people in Lucknow in dream to cry over their failures as the Bharatiya Janata Party has done the work they could not. Lord Krishna must have also told them that they did nothing for Mathura, Gokul, Barsana or Vrindavan. Contrarily they produced Kans and caused Jawahar Bagh riots in which superintendent of police-rank officer Mukul Dwivedi was martyred. Unhe Bhagwan Krishna se matlab nahi tha, woh log Kans ke upasak the, aur kans hi paida karte the,” Yogi said after inaugurating and laying the foundation stones of 113 development projects, including the inauguration of 660 MW Harduaganj thermal expansion project, the first supercritical unit of Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited, worth more than Rs 7,000 crore at Aligarh on Tuesday.
On this occasion, the chief minister also distributed tablets and smartphones to students and also announced the setting up of a sugar mill at Satha.
Targeting Samajwadi Party, Yogi said, “It was Mathura where the first Kosi Kalan riots took place. The Jawahar Bagh incident took place in the same district. Who would have forgotten the Muzaffarnagar riots and the Aligarh controversy? But now, Uttar Pradesh has become riot-free as a result of the work done by our public representatives and police in the last five years. ‘Aaj pradesh me danga nahi, ganna paida hota hai,” he said.
Mentioning COVID-19 management by his government, the chief minister also took a jibe at Akhilesh Yadav saying, “The boy who does not go to school for the entire year and then attends classes in the last month expects to top in the examination, which is impossible.”
“Today, when bulldozers are razing the properties of those who looted people, then some people sitting in Saifai are feeling the pinch most. Even the brothers and sisters from Italy are crying over bulldozers ruining the mafia. Prior to 2017, public money was plundered, development was restricted to that of one family in UP. The money meant for the poor was hidden by them in the walls. Now, we are digging out the same money with JCBs and giving tablets and smartphones to the youth and building houses for the poor. Earlier, the state government used to buy electricity at expensive prices and pass the burden on to the public and even then power supply was inadequate,” he claimed.
Talking about the uniformity in words and deeds of the BJP, Yogi said, “People have the seven year-rule of the Narendra Modi government and our governance in UP for the last five years to assess performance. We said that we will end terrorism from within the country, Modi ji and Amit Shah ji removed Article 370 relating to Jammu and Kashmir. ‘Fark saaf hai, jo kaha woh kiya’ (The difference is clear, we delivered what we promised).”
Yogi further said, “There was a period when temple was being demolished in Ayodhya, temples in Kashi and Mathura were being defiled. But now, Modi ji gave a grand look to Kashi Vishwanath Dham, a grand temple of Lord Shri Ram is being built in Ayodhya. For Modi ji, 135 crore people of the country are his family while for some, only their family matters.”
Sugarcane Development Minister Suresh Rana, Energy Minister Shrikant Sharma, Minister of State for Medical Education Sandeep Singh, local MPs Satish Gautam, Rajveer Singh Diler and many MLAs, other public representatives, government officials and many dignitaries of BJP participated in the programme.