Politics of revenge: PM targets Akhilesh Yadav led SP

In his first virtuala poll rally in poll bound 58 districte of UP, BJP leader and prime minister Narendra Modi on Monday targeted the previous Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party government calling it a regime run by rioters and muscle men. Modi said when western UP was burning due to riots, "those in power were celebrating." "Five years ago rioters, muscle men used to be law unto themselves in UP," he added. He said traders were looted and daughters could not come out of their homes five years ago in the state. Modi ask, “Those who don't believe in India's own Covid vaccine and fuel rumours, can they respect talent of UP's youth?”

The PM said that the previous regime built "only 73 houses in Gautam Budh Nagar" during their tenure of five years, while the Yogi Adityanath-led "government has built about 23,000 houses in five years for the urban poor. “Only 800 houses were built in Shamli, Muzaffarnagar and Baghpat cities by the Samajwadi government during its entire tenure," he also said, adding, “while Yogi government has given houses to more than 33,000 poor people in these three cities." Modi Samajwadi Party of inducing voters to "seek revenge" on the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, saying it was a far cry from the developmental policies of the Yogi Adityanath government. Pitching it as "Nakli Samajwad (fake socialism) versus gareeb ka sarkaar (government of the poor)" he cited the homes for poor, policies for backward classes, medical colleges, greater connectivity through expressways, initiatives for Muslim women and the raising of marriage for women as the achievements of the BJP government at the Centre and the state.