Uttar Pradesh assembly elections: Opposition dividing society when India needs to be strong, says PM Narendra Modi

LUCKNOW: In an apparent reference to the Ukraine crisis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday blasted the Opposition for attempting to divide society for political gains, despite knowing that a united and empowered India was the need of the hour during the current global emergency. The PM was addressing a packed election rally in Jaunpur, which goes to polls in the last phase. “BJP and its allies, however, are trying to strengthen the country and put it on a developmental trajectory,” he said.

Modi’s blistering attack came on a day Opposition leaders led by SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, ally RLD president Jayant Chaudhary and TMC supremo and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee organized a mammoth rally just 55km away on his parliamentary turf, Varanasi.