‘Laal topi is red alert for UP’: PM targets Akhilesh
Laal ka inquilab (revolution) hoga, 2022 mein badlav hoga: Akhilesh hits back
Gorakhpur/Lucknow, Dec. 7: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday equated the red caps worn by Samajwadi Party workers with the “red beacons” that suggest a hunger for power and sounded a “red alert”, claiming the SP wants to form the next government in the state in order to “free terrorists”. SP president Akhilesh Yadav reacted quickly, and tweeted that the red caps are a “red alert” for the BJP itself as they will oust that party from power.
Mr Modi’s attack on the Opposition party came on chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s home turf Gorakhpur, where he inaugurated a mega fertiliser plant and an AllIndia
Institute of Medical Sciences, together worth nearly `10,000 crores.
“The red cap people want power to commit scams, fill their coffers, indulge in illegal grabbing
(of resources) and give complete freedom to the mafia,” he said, adding: “The red cap people want to form the government to show favour to terrorists and to free them from jail. You should remember red caps are a red alert for UP.”
In Lucknow, Mr Akhilesh Yadav asserted that those wearing red caps, a trademark headgear of his party members, are a “red alert” for the BJP as they will oust it from power in the next UP Assembly polls.
In a tweet in Hindi, he said: “For the BJP, there is a red alert of inflation, of unemployment, of the bad plight of farmers and labourers, of Hathras and Lakhimpur Kheri… of the oppression of women and youths, of a destroyed education system, business and health.” He added: “There will be an ‘inquilab’ of red and change in 2022.”