Stung by Congress poster, new UP BJP chief hits back

A day after some Congress workers put up a poster in Allahabad questioning his transformation from a “chai wallah” to a “crorepati”, new UP BJP chief Keshav Prasad Maurya on Wednesday targeted the Congress over the Ishrat Jahan encounter.

“Truth about how the dirty tricks department of the Congress tried to frame our top leaders, including our party chief Amit Shah in Ishrat’s encounter, is now well known. The Congress leaders had then tried to prove that Ishrat was a student and not a terrorist. It only goes to prove to what extent the Congress can go to defame the BJP,” Maurya said soon after arriving in Lucknow from Kanpur on Wednesday.

“The posters against me only show how desperate the Congress party is,” Maurya said.

He also targeted the ruling Samajwadi Party saying that he expected the cases against him to go up now. “My opponents have been targeting me for 11 cases against my name. I wish to tell them that as I step up the battle against the anti-people policies of the state government, cases against me would go up even further. I won’t be worried even if 11000 cases are registered against my name,” he said.

Maurya said that the BJP cadres would work hard to achieve the ‘SP-BSP mukt UP’ in 2017 UP polls. “Our cadres would take the achievement of the BJP government at the centre to the people,” he said adding that the duo of “Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah had great plans for UP’s development.”