Shah hails Yogi for ridding west UP of mafia terror
Union home minister Amit Shah says crime fell by 70% in UP under BJP rule, asks Akhilesh Yadav to check data
MEERUT : Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday said the law and order situation has improved in Uttar Pradesh under the Yogi Adityanath government which had made the western region of the state free of mafia terror. The home minister emphasised that the crime rate fell by 70% in comparison to the situation during the previous Samajwadi Party (SP) regime led by Akhilesh Yadav. He alluded also to the alleged “exodus” of Hindus from a western UP town some years back.
Shah was addressing a public meeting at Puwarka in Saharanpur district on Thursday after laying the foundation stone of the Maa Shakumbhari State University through remote along with chief minister Yogi Adityanath, Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma, other ministers and party leaders.
Shah said that he had heard the SP chief’s claim that crime has increased in UP under the Yogi government and added, “I was listening to Akhilesh Yadav’s speech on TV, where he says that crime has increased. Akhileshji, where did you bring your spectacles from? What spectacles do you use? I have brought a comparison between the five years of Yogiji and you.”
Shah asserted the crime rate declined by 70% during Yogi rule in Uttar Pradesh and incidents of loot dipped by 69%, cases of murder by 30% and dowry deaths by 22.5% in comparison to the previous government. He advised Akhilesh Yadav to go home and check the data.
The home minister said people of western UP were facing the terror of the mafia earlier but the Yogi government restored the honour of the region by initiating stern action against criminals.
“Mafia and criminals now surrender before the police,” Shah said and appreciated Yogi Adityanath for providing the people, especially women and girls, security by creating an atmosphere free of fear.
Earlier, people had to send their sisters and daughters outside to pursue studies because their parents feared for their safety and security in the region, he said. But now, nobody has the courage to misbehave with daughters and sisters, the home minister said.
Without naming Shamli’s Kairana town or elaborating on the details, the home minister said when he came to Saharanpur itself ahead of the 2017 polls, people asked him what the party intended to do about “palayan” (exodus, migration).
“I told them that people who are making them flee will themselves flee from Uttar Pradesh if a Bharatiya Janata Party government comes to power,” Shah said.
“There was a time when riots used to happen here, youths were killed and there used to be curfew for days. There was a tendency to file one-sided cases. Now, due to the BJP government, there are no riots,” Shah said.
“Cow slaughter was stopped and illegal slaughter houses closed,” he further said.
Listing the achievements of the Narendra Modi government, he said the Prime Minister had done what no one else could do in the past 70 years.
He repealed Article 370 of the Constitution, provided justice to Muslim women by doing away with triple talaq and a grand Ram temple is now being built in Ayodhya, Shah said.
“No one believed that the construction of the temple will start at Ram Janmabhoomi but the temple is being built,” he said.
He said when he was in charge of the BJP’s Uttar Pradesh campaign in 2014, Akhilesh Yadav used to taunt that the BJP wouldn’t give the date for the temple construction.