Results may hurt Bua and Babua: Yogi
ASKED ABOUT THE SP AND BSP’S ELECTORAL UNDERSTANDING, ADITYANATH SAID IT WOULD HAVE NO EFFECT ON THE OUTCOME OF THE BYPOLLS.
GORAKHPUR/ALLAHABAD:: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath and deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Sunday exuded confidence that BJP candidates will win both the Gorakhpur and Phulpur seats.
After casting his vote at a polling booth at Purana Gorakhpur, Adityanath said: “I am the first one to vote at this booth, so the BJP will win. The people have already rejected the politics of family and dynasty.”
Asked about the SP and BSP’s electoral understanding, Adityanath said it would have no effect on the outcome of the bypolls.
“The SP and BSP have come together, but the results might hurt Bua (the name SP chief Akhilesh Yadav used for BSP leader Mayawati in the past) and Babua (the term Mayawati used for Akhilesh),” he said taking a jibe. “We are against unholy bargains due to which the state has remained backward and there have been roadblocks in development. There was rampant corruption and anarchy, and jungle raj prevailed in the state,” he said. “The people know that development is the only panacea,” he told reporters. Gorakhpur is the bastion of Adityanath, who represented the seat in the Lok Sabha five times.
Prior to Adityanath, the Gorakhpur seat was represented in parliament by his mentor Mahant Avaidyanath thrice.
MAURYA TAKES A DIG AT SP-BSP UNDERSTANDING
In Phulpur, Maurya said: “I am confident that on March 14 (when results are declared), the record made in Phulpur in 2014 (Lok Sabha elections) will be repeated, and our candidate Kaushalendra Patel will emerge victorious,” he told reporters after casting his vote for the Phulpur seat along with family members.
Taking a dig at the SP-BSP tie-up, the minister said, “Their (SP-BSP) votes will be transferred only when they have enough votes”.
“The votes (of the people) are with us. But, they have only leaders who make statements... The voters of Mayawati ji have deserted the BSP and have reposed their faith in Modi ji, Yogi and BJP. We are winning both the Lok Sabha seats, and with wider margins,” Maurya claimed. Union minister of state for finance Shiv Pratap Shukla cast his vote in Gorakhpur, while UP health minister Sidharth Nath Singh exercised his franchise in Phulpur.