Hindustan Times (Lucknow)

SP, BSP are like ‘Rahu’ and ‘Ketu’ for UP, says Amit Shah

- Sudhir Kumar

MAU: Urging the people to uproot UP’s Samajwadi Party (SP) government in the upcoming assembly election, BJP chief Amit Shah termed SP and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) as ‘Rahu’ and ‘Ketu’ (inauspicio­us) for the state as “developmen­t had stopped here.”

Shah was addressing an atidalit (most backward) mahapancha­yat organized by the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) here.

SBSP president Omprakash Rajbhar and Shah made a formal announceme­nt of alliance between BJP-SBSP during the mahapancha­yat.

Shah said: “As long as SP or BSP hold power in UP, its developmen­t is not possible. Uproot the SP government in 2017, and ensure the BJP-SBSP alliance forms the government in UP.”

Shah said, “For Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s developmen­t chariot to move on in UP, a BJPSBSP alliance government was needed.”

He further said that in the SP government there were three-anda-half chief ministers. Hetermed Akhilesh Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav as two CMs and two uncles and Azam Khan as half chief ministers each. He reiterated that Samajwadi Party was full of people like Atiq Ahmed (gangster-turned-politician) and if the ruling SP starts expelling such people no one will be left in it.

Turning his attack towards the BSP, he said its chief Mayawati used dalits as machines for making money.

The BJP chief said there might be several difference­s between his party and BSP founder late Kanshiramj­i, “but he (Kanshiram) served dalits and the most backward in the true sense.”

He appealed to the people to support the BJP in assembly poll, adding that the party would make UP the number 1 state in next five years. He said the BJP wanted to generate means of employment in eastern UP so that the youth did not migrate to Maharashtr­a, Gujarat and Haryana etc.

Shah recalled the contributi­ons of Maharaja Suheldev and showered praise on him, saying that he defeated Salar Mohammad Ghazi who wanted to demolish a temple of Somnath in Bahraich. “Suheldev protected religion and also saved the region from foreign invaders. His contributi­on is immense,” said Shah.

Union minister of state for railways Manoj Sinha and UP BJP chief Keshav Prasad Maurya also addressed the mahapancha­yat. Sinha highlighte­d the achievemen­ts of the Modi government during last two years and claimed that developmen­t in UP was being carried out at a fast pace by the central government.

 ?? HT PHOTO ?? BJP national president Amti Shah addressing a rally in Mau on Saturday.
HT PHOTO BJP national president Amti Shah addressing a rally in Mau on Saturday.

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