PARTIES ATTACK CONG, SAY DALIT PICKED WITH EYE ON VOTE BANK
LUCKNOW/ NEW DELHI: The Bahujan Samaj Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday termed the appointment of Dalit leader Charanjit Singh Channi as the new chief minister of poll-bound Punjab an “electoral gimmick”, and cautioned Dalits against the Congress’s “double standards”.
Mayawati, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and currently an ally of the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab, welcomed Channi’s appointment but said, “Making a person belonging to Dalit caste as the chief minister of Punjab is nothing but an election stunt... The reality is that Congress and other political parties think of Dalits only in times of crisis.”
The BJP, too, alleged that Congress picked Channi to grab Dalit votes.
“This is an old habit of the Congress. It believes that it can capture the Dalit vote bank by making a Dalit CM for a few months. A conspiracy is being hatched in Punjab to grab Dalit vote bank,” said state in-charge Dushyant Kumar Gautam.
VARANASI : Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday accused the previous governments in the state of protecting the mafias and goons and said his government was wiping them out.
Yogi was addressing a gathering after launching development projects and distributing certificates of various government schemes to the beneficiaries at a ground in Saidpur town of Ghazipur. In an apparent reference to gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, the CM said the mafioso, who defamed the name of the district, was being wiped out from Ghazipur.
“BJP government knows how to deal with goons and mafia very well. Bulldozers are being run over the properties of goons and mafia in BJP government. In the previous governments, they used to get government protection,” he said. Yogi said the entire country was developing under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “Today people can do aachman (religious ritual) with Gangajal. Continuous efforts have been done for improving the health infrastructure. The daughter of the poor is the daughter of the government,” he said. The CM also claimed that there had been a big change in the state in the last four and a half years.
“The BJP government is working continuously for the benefit and development of farmers. Many schemes are being launched for the benefit of the farmers. Government schemes are reaching every village now,” the CM said.
He also hit out at opposition parties over development.
“Development is the agenda of BJP. The government is dedicated to the respect of the people. BJP government is dedicated to the interests of the people,” he said. The CM also promised to get the Purvanchal Expressway inaugurated soon by PM Modi. “Purvanchal Expressway will change lives of peopl ,” Yogi said.
Adityanath said Ghazipur is known since the Ramayana period and the medical college at Ghazipur will be named after Maharishi Vishwamitra.
Later speaking at a function in Jaunpur, Yogi alleged the SP, BSP and Congress never thought about the country, people and youths. The CM alleged that during the rule of previous government, when job advertisements appeared or vacant posts were advertised, a family used to come out with a bag.