Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that unlike the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Samajwadi Party, the Congress and the Bahujan Samaj Party did not have development as well as safety and security of the people on their agenda.
Talking to a select group of intellectuals under the ‘Dialogue with Influential Voters’ programme at Muradnagar in Ghaziabad to seek votes for BJP candidate Ajit Pal Tyagi, Yogi said that these three were basically family-oriented parties in which only family mattered, while for the BJP, the well-being of the 25 crore people of the state was the top priority.
“Our family is the 25 crore people of the state,” he remarked.
Yogi said that these parties of Chacha-Bhatija, Bua-Bhatija and Bhai-Behan were nowhere to be seen during the coronavirus pandemic and it was the double-engine government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Centre and the UP government, and the BJP workers that were working round the clock to save lives and livelihood of people.
Hitting out at the SP leadership, Yogi said that their red caps carried blood stains of Ram bhakts and innocent people who died in Muzaffarnagar riots and people could not forgive them.
He added: “Before 2017, the situation was bad all over Western UP. There were frequent riots. Traders and women were unsafe. They unleashed chaos and anarchy when they were in power, shielding and encouraging gangsters and mafia. There was no development.”
“Today, we have built the Meerut Expressway while work is underway on a rapid rail project between Meerut and Delhi worth Rs 30,000 crore. And soon, we will build a world-class film city near Ghaziabad so that the cinematic talents of our state do not have to migrate to Mumbai to try their luck,” Yogi said.
He further pointed out that the double engine government of UP had provided 43 lakh houses to the poor and free LPG connections to 1.56 crore families, as well as free ration and free electricity to crores of needy people.
Yogi said that if people did not want history-sheeters to run police stations and wanted daughters and women to feel safe, they must reject parties that cannot rise above families to think in the larger interest of the people.
He said that people did not have a better option than the BJP if they wanted development and the rule of law to stay in UP where women felt safe, interests of farmers and traders were protected and youth got plenty of employment opportunities.
He added: “Before election, professional criminals may try to intimidate voters, but after March 10, they will all be running for their lives and therefore, there is no need to fear them.”
Earlier, Yogi Adityanath interacted with voters in Baghpat where he told them that the previous governments looted public money and hid it behind walls and it was being unearthed by the BJP government. He said that the previous government brazenly sympathised with rioters and criminals and it was clearly reflected in the distribution of tickets by the party.