Farruchabad:
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Sunday that Uttar Pradesh saw the maximum number of riots during the Samajwadi Party rule and only the incumbent BJP government kept such incidents under control.
He also said that since vaccines against COVID-19 have saved lives, votes should also go to “Yogi and Modi vaccines.”
Addressing the election rallies in Rajepur and Kamalganj, Mr Adityanath called the SP “a party of rioters” and said the maximum number of riots in the state took place during the previous government when the Akhilesh Yadav-led party patronized anti-social patronage . elements.
After the BJP government came to power, he said, effective curbs were introduced, which is why “not a single incident of rioting occurred in five years”.
Referring to Kavad Yatra, an annual pilgrimage of devotees of Lord Shiva, the prime minister said the curfew was announced earlier during the procession. However, under the BJP rule, the yatra was taken out with much fanfare.
He said the BJP’s “twin-engine government” in the Center and the state reached out to the public during the pandemic, even as the SP, Bahujan Samaj party and Congress spread “propaganda” against the vaccines.
The third wave of COVID-19 has not only harmed people because of the vaccine, Mr Adityanath said, adding, “If the vaccine saved lives, then the votes should also be given to the Yogi and Modi vaccines.” Referring to the measures his government has taken against criminals, Mr Adityanath said the government’s formula is “development on one side and bulldozer on the other”.
At a rally in Kamalganj in support of Bhojpur’s Legislative Assembly candidate Nagendra Singh Rathore, the prime minister claimed that the SP government wanted to make Bhojpur “Islamabad”.
“Nowadays, every section of society is reaping the benefits of development,” he said.