With just two days left for campaigning ahead of the bypolls to two assembly and one Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP and the Samajwadi Party are stepping up their attacks on each other. Criticizing the previous SP government, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that under the Akhilesh government, farmers could not go to their land as their tube well connections were disconnected, machines were stolen and their throats were slit.
“Girls could not go to school and women to markets due to security concerns. People were forced to migrate from places like Kairana and Kandla. People Sachin and Gaurav (two brothers killed during the Muzaffarnagar riots) Can never forget the brutality of the SP regime,” he said. He urged the people not to let the “professional criminals” of the Samajwadi Party come under the spell of power.
He said, “Kawal ka Bawal” (Muzaffarnagar) is the curse of the SP.
Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Maurya accused SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle Shivpal Yadav of being driven by a “feudal” mindset.
Maurya said that due to this feudalistic thinking, the rule of uncle-nephew continued in both the government and the organization of the Samajwadi Party.
He said, “This family cannot see backward and Dalits moving forward.”
He slammed Shivpal for using derogatory words for BJP candidate Raghuraj Singh Shakya and said that people will give reply to Shivpal and his nephew by puncturing SP’s cycle and ensuring Shakya’s victory in Mainpuri.
Describing Akhilesh as anti-backward, Maurya said that he and his family are not socialists but anti-backward.
He said that not only Akhilesh but his uncle Shivpal, Ram Gopal and the whole family have only one thing in their mind that how to maintain their fear and terror among common people on the basis of corruption, hooliganism and anarchy while in power. ,
On the other hand, Shivpal Yadav said that seeing the unity in the Samajwadi Party and the Yadav family, BJP’s fury is increasing.
“They were hoping to cash in on the divide, but now their hopes have been dashed. This bypoll is going to be the beginning of the end for the BJP,” he said.
The polling will be held on December 5 and the counting of votes will take place on December 8.