BJP will win all seats from UP in 2019: Yogi

LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath claimed on Tuesday the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will win all the 80 parliamentary seats in Uttar Pradesh in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Speaking at a television programme, he also claimed that Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi will migrate to some other safer seats out of fear of losing their traditional constituencies of Amethi and Rae Bareli.”

The people of Uttar Pradesh have experienced the bitter regime of the Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party and they will banish them forever from the state,” he said.

To a question on whether by saying that he will not celebrate Eid, was he not confining himself as a leader of Hindus, Adityanath answered in the negative and said Hindusim was his faith and religion and he was extremely proud of it.

“I am proud to be born a Hindu, have lead a life of a seer and having been given ‘diksha’ in the oldest sect,” he said while adding that he was not one of those leaders who would quietly recite Hanuman Chalisa

› The people of UP have experienced the bitter regime of the Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party and they will banish them forever from the state YOGI ADITYANATH, CM

inside their homes and don skull caps when they step out. Saying he would not resort to such practices, he, however, maintained that people of other religions wanting to celebrate their festivals peacefully will be given full security by the state government. Adityanath also ruled out any mediation in the Ram Janmabhoomi imbroglio. “We should pin our hopes on the apex court and await its verdict on the matter,” he said.

He also sought to stress that minorities in the state need not fear him. IANS