After BSP, Shah trains guns at Akhilesh
BJP president Amit Shah on Tuesday blamed the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh for all the ills plaguing the state, from the Mathura violence and Dadri tension to irregularities in the implementation of MGNREGA and corruption and lawlessness.
After attacking the BSP for the past several months, the BJP has now trained its guns at the Samajwadi Party. Mr Shah told reporters here on Tuesday that the Akhilesh government was acting as a barrier blocking welfare schemes formulated by the Modi government and preventing the benefits from percolating down to the common man for political reasons. “Whether it is funds for Bundelkhand or MGNREGA or the e- register for labourers, the state government has no interest in pushing things forward. Funds are lying unused,” he said, adding that in any case there were “about six chief ministers in UP”, which explained the total lack of governance. The BJP president said the Akhilesh government was neck- deep in corruption and that on this issue the SP and BSP were on the same page.
Asked to comment on the Samajwadi Party’s allegation that Naxal involvement in the deadly clashes in Mathura reflected the failure of Central intelligence agencies and that the Union home minister should resign over this failure, Mr Shah said, “Law and order is a state subject, but, if the state government wants, we will take it into our hands and set everything right.”
BJP president Amit Shah on Tuesday attacked the Akhilesh Yadav- led government in Uttar Pradesh on the issue of corruption in the state.
“The Samajwadi Party came to power on the issue of BSP’s corruption but it has been more than four years and no action has been taken against BSP leaders, crime against women is at an all- time high and everyone knows about the mining scam. Regarding the Mathura clashes, how can a government claim to be ignorant of one man building his empire in the heart of the city? The incident has had no impact on the government which has revealed complete insensitivity on the issue,” he told reporters here on Tuesday.
Mr Shah said the BJP would now launch a campaign against land- grabbing and aggrieved parties would be welcome to inform the party about such instances. “We will fight it through the legal system,” he said.
Replying to questions on the Dadri incidents, the BJP president said, “Why blame us? Dadri is in Uttar Pradesh, the police belong to the state, the officials belong to the state and the forensic laboratory also belongs to the state. We have nothing to do with the panchayat held there,” he said.
As the BJP president listed the Modi government’s achievements of the past two years, he was asked to list the failures too. “We have only one failure — we have been unable to convince journalists,” he said.