Nadda asks UP BJP MPS to counter criticism on farm laws
THEY HAVE ALSO BEEN ASKED VISIT THE RURAL UP AND HIGHLIGHT THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF MODI, YOGI GOVTS
LUCKNOW: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief JP Nadda on Thursday tasked the second batch of party MPS from Uttar Pradesh (UP) with countering Opposition criticism against the new farm laws and to visit the rural parts of state with achievements of the Narendra Modi government at the Centre and Yogi Adityanath government in the state.
On Wednesday, Nadda and chief minister Yogi Adityanath had addressed the first batch of party MPS from UP at Delhi’s Constitution Club. The party chief had then tasked MPS and the newly appointed Union ministers from the state with taking out Jan Ashirwad Yatras, possibly from August 16.
Emerging from the Thursday’s meeting, the newly appointed Union minister of state for housing and urban development Kaushal Kishore said BJP MPS would talk of the achievements of the Modi-yogi governments and expose the “opposition canard” on issues, including farm laws. Kishore is the BJP MP from Mohanlalganj on the outskirts of Lucknow.
Asked about Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait’s statement that if the government did not budge on farm laws, farmers would converge on Lucknow, Kishore said, “This isn’t a statement by a farmer leader. It’s a statement by Rakesh Tikait who doesn’t represent all the farmers.”
All the new ministers, including Maharajganj MP Pankaj Choudhary, were tasked with taking out yatras. “All of us would visit at least three to four Lok Sabha areas other than our own and talk about our government’s achievements,” said SP Baghel, the BJP MP from Agra who was made Union minister of state for law and justice earlier this month. Earlier at the meeting, CM Yogi Adityanath also urged the party MPS to effectively counter the Opposition. “Adityanathji spoke of how sugarcane dues of a record number of farmers have been paid over the last four-and-a-half years in UP and blamed the Opposition for misleading farmers on farm laws,” a party MP said after the meeting. A BJP booklet ‘Iradey nek, kaam anek’ too was given to party MPS in which various initiatives of Modi-yogi governments have been listed, party leaders said.