NADDA TAKES VEILED SWIPE AT JAYANT FOR NOT USING SUFFRAGE
LUCKNOW : In a veiled swipe at the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Jayant Chaudhary for not casting his vote on Thursday, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national chief JP Nadda said it reflected “dynastic arrogance” of the leader.
The BJP’s attack on Chaudhary, who has allied with the opposition Samajwadi Party for the 2022 UP polls, has steadily increased ever since the RLD leader spurned BJP’s offer of joining hands after leaving the SP.
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his Saharanpur rally also took a veiled swipe at the RLD, saying that “those who earlier slammed the SP for Muzaffarnagar riots were standing with it now”, the BJP chief while addressing a rally in Sitapur trained guns on the Jat leader for not casting his vote.
“Today a leader didn’t cast his vote due to dynastic arrogance and that’s why it’s necessary to give answer to such people,” Nadda said at his rally. “I am a voter of Mathura and since I was campaigning in Bijnor, I will try to reach Mathura to cast my vote,” Jayant had said a little before the voting time ended.
Subsequently, the RLD cleared that Jayant was unable to cast his vote though his wife Charu did exercise her franchise. Mathura along with 10 other west UP districts went to poll in the first phase of assembly election on Thursday. UP deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya also took potshots at Jayant without naming him. “All I can say is that in democracy, each vote is important. Probably Akhilesh ji didn’t tell him or he didn’t realise the importance of vote,” Maurya said.