Cong dividing the country: Adityanath

DHARAMSHALA: Launching a scathing attack on Congress, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath accused the Congress of dividing the people of India on the basis of region, religion and caste, here on Monday. The 44-year-old head priest of Gorkhnath Temple said that people have lost trust in Congress and Rahul Gandhi.

The UP CM had come to address a rally at Amb of Una district on the concluding day of the BJP 22-day Parivartan Rath Yatra. Former Union minister Shanta Kumar, Hamirpur MP Anurag Thakur and state BJP chief Satpal Singh Satti were also present at the occasion.

“PM Modi-led BJP government, in the past three years, has created an atmosphere of trust,”he said. The Centre is working with the motto of ‘Sabka Sath Sabka Vikas’ (collective efforts, inclusive growth) and has launched welfare schemes for every section of the society, he added.

On PM Modi’s popularity, he said, “Even a two-year-old, when he sees Modi on television, starts chanting ‘Modi-Modi’. An overwhelming support to the demonetisation policy has reflected the belief that people have in our PM.” Yogi accused the Congress of never raising its voice for the long-pending demand of retired soldiers’ ‘One Rank, One Pension’ (OROP). “It was the BJP government that met the demand and gave due respect to the veterans,” he said.

“Mining and forest mafia are plundering the state of its natural resources,” he said. He added that the state government has failed to implement Centre-sponsored schemes here. “Winds of change are blowing in Himachal. BJP will form the next government in the state,” Yogi added.

Former CM Prem Kumar Dhumal said, “The state is being run by tyrant and corrupt government, whose CM is a ‘zamanti mukhymantri’ (CM on bail), it is bringing bad name to the state.”

Yogi pays obeisance at Chintpurni temple.

Soon after his arrival at Una, the UP CM went to Chintpurni town and paid obeisance at the Chintpurni shrine.