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UP Meeting: CM slams Mamata over Bengal ballot violence, counters Akhilesh

Via PTI

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Leader Minister Yogi Adityanath slammed his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee over ballot violence in her state and centered Akhilesh Yadav, who heads the primary opposition birthday party again house, over his “false marketing campaign” on farmers’ problems.

Talking at the movement of thank you at the Governor’s deal with to the state legislature, Adityanath indexed the achievements of his earlier executive, evaluating them with the only led previous by way of Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Birthday party.

He hit out at Yadav for his reluctance to simply accept the “luck” of the “double engine” executive — a connection with the BJP being in energy each on the Centre and within the state.

The “double engine”, he mentioned, “is operating at triple velocity”.

He ridiculed the opposition chief for “blaming” the digital balloting machines for the SP’s defeat within the fresh meeting polls, which introduced the BJP again to energy in UP for a 2d time period in a row.

“In the event that they win, the entirety is alright. But when the BJP wins, there may be some fault with the EVMs,” Adityanath mentioned.

“That is an insult to the folks.”

With out naming Trinamool Birthday party chief Mamata Banerjee, Adityanath recalled her consult with to the state all the way through the UP marketing campaign.

“A ‘didi’ from West Bengal got here in enhance of the Samajwadi Birthday party within the elections,” he mentioned, whilst attacking her executive for the violence all the way through the meeting elections in her state in 2021.

He claimed that “12,000 incidents of violence” had been reported from 142 of the 294 meeting seats in that state, and numerous BJP employees centered.

“The inhabitants of West Bengal is part of Uttar Pradesh. There was once no pre-poll or any post-poll violence in Uttar Pradesh. That is an instance of regulation and order,” Adityanath mentioned.

On regulation and order in UP, he mentioned, “Our executive carried out the city native our bodies’ ballot in 2017 with none violence. Within the Lok Sabha polls too there was once no violence. The 2021 panchayat elections had been non violent. The 2022 UP Meeting elections had been additionally carried out in a calm approach.”

He additionally when compared Covid control in his state with that during Maharashtra.

The CM mentioned all of the state of UP has turn out to be an recommend (‘pakshdar’) of “Ram Rajya”.

“Ram Rajya isn’t a spiritual machine,” he added, calling it “everlasting” and “common”.

“We’re labelled nationalists, and we really feel pleased with it,” he mentioned.

“The situation of somebody devoid of nationalism is like that of a rat. The rat works to dismantle the root of the home by which it lives and will get its meals from.”

He claimed the opposition had attempted its highest to “hoodwink” the folks of UP at the farmer’s factor, relating to their year-long protest over Centre’s now scrapped agri-laws.

However the farmers rejected the “false marketing campaign” which is obvious from the truth that the BJP gained from 46 of the 58 meeting seats within the first segment of elections, basically within the spaces ruled by way of farmers, he mentioned.

The utmost choice of farmers dedicated suicide within the state between 2004 and 2016,” he claimed, relating to UP beneath earlier governments.

“In spite of inheriting the dangerous monetary situation of the state, we waived the mortgage of 86 lakh farmers,” he mentioned.

He mentioned all the way through the SP time period, the state executive spent Rs 17,190 crore on paddy acquire however for a similar length from 2017 his personal executive paid Rs 42,244 crore to farmers for his or her crop.

“The Chief of Opposition gave a just right speech. However it could had been just right had he spoken one thing about his executive,” he mentioned, relating to Yadav’s remarks at the Governor’s deal with.

Adityanath additionally referred to alleged scams all the way through the SP time period and mentioned it could had been just right if there was once a dialogue on them as smartly.

In contrast to within the SP time period, recruitment in executive departments happened with out favouritism or bribes, he mentioned.

Later, Yadav countered the CM’s claims on construction and highlighted the migration of labourers all the way through the Covid pandemic.

The SP chief mentioned he had previous adverse the Covid vaccine on account of High Minister Narendra Modi’s {photograph} at the certificate given to those that took the jab.