LUCKNOW: Chief minister
Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday mounted a searing attack on the Samajwadi Party by labelling those wearing ‘red caps’ as a “threat to society”.
Addressing voters at Siwalkhas and
Kithore
assembly constituencies in Meerut, and at Modinagar in Ghaziabad,
Yogi said: “Red cap means riots, robbery and stealing of farmers’ equipment.”
“The party has fixed its agenda well before elections. Under the SP government, women were unsafe, youths were unemployed and farmers used to commit suicide. Riots took place every third day and when the youths revolted, the government would file false cases against them,” he claimed.
Yogi said the BJP government waived loans worth Rs 36,000 crore of 86 lakh farmers, including one lakh in Meerut alone. “We made record payments to sugarcane farmers while 2.54 crore farmers benefitted from PM
Kisan Samman Nidhi
. We provided government jobs to 5 lakh youth and ensured safety of daughters, which was perpetually under threat during the SP government,” he said.
Apparently referring to the alleged murders of two Jat youths which is said to have triggered Muzaffarnagar riots in 2013, Yogi said, “BJP cannot tolerate youths getting killed while saving their sisters. We have taught a lesson to criminals, mafia and gangsters.”
The CM maintained that the Meerut Expressway and the rapid rail project worth Rs 30,000 crore would step up developmental activities.
“We used public money to serve people, they (SP) used it for their friends in the perfume industry. Finally, we had to bulldoze the walls of their friends’ bungalows to dig out unaccounted cash,” he remarked, referring to the raids carried out on the premises of Kanpur-based perfume trader
Piyush Jain
. He said by taking the vaccine for Covid-19, people had “given a tight slap” to the opposition leaders who doubted its efficacy.
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