‘SP, BJP gave kabristan, shamshan’
LUCKNOW: Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP), stating that one made shamshan ghats (cremation grounds) and the other kabristan (graveyards) while his party will construct schools and hospitals, if voted to power in Uttar Pradesh. Kejriwal was in Lucknow to address the party’s election rally at Smriti Upvan.
“During their tenures (in government), the Samajwadi Party made kabristan and the BJP shamshan ghats. But if you vote us (AAP), we will construct schools and hospitals,” he said.
The Delhi CM also announced ₹1000 per month allowance for all women above 18 years of UP if his party is voted to power. “The BJP not only made shamshan ghats but also sent people there,” he added, referring to the second wave of Covid-19 in Uttar Pradesh in 2021. “UP was the worst in managing corona (Covid-19 pandemic),” he alleged and added: “A large number of people died and they had to go to shamshan ghats.”
Promising to improve the condition of schools across the state, he said, “Yogi Adityanath has failed to improve the condition of schools (government schools) in the last five years. But I will ensure good schools for all in Uttar Pradesh, like the ones in Delhi.” The Delhi chief minister invited UP CM Yogi Adityanath to visit Delhi and see for himself any state government run school there. Invoking Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar, the AAP leader said, “I want to fulfil Babasaheb’s dream of good education for everyone.”
Further attacking the BJP government in UP, the AAP convenor said: “In Delhi, there are more hoardings of Yogi Adityanath as compared to mine.”
AAP has announced it will contest almost all the 403 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh.
Samajwadi Party spokesperson Abdul Hafiz Gandhi said, “People of UP know about the development work carried out during the SP government. Even Arvind Kejriwal recently praised our party’s national president Akhilesh Yadav and stated that he should become the next CM in 2022. Our party is committed to developing UP.”