Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday accused the Samajwadi Party and the Congress of caring more about Bangladeshi infiltrators than about Dalits, the poor and the youth.
Without naming anyone, he said the country had two “miyans”— a “chhote miyan” and a “bade miyan”, who were united by their affection for infiltrators.
Invoking Maharishi Valmiki, Sant Ravidas and Dr BR Ambedkar, Adityanath presented his government as the custodian of their legacy. The chief minister accused it of putting family interests above public welfare and of wanting to drag the state back to disorder. He recalled the killing of police officers at Jawahar Bagh and asked how ordinary people could feel safe when the police themselves were not. He also alleged that the previous government removed Ambedkar’s name from a medical college in Kannauj and Kanshi Ram’s name from a university in Lucknow. Those parties, he alleged, did not want the temple built.
He also inaugurated and laid the foundation of 48 projects worth over ₹ 411 crore in Kanpur, and prayed at Maharishi Valmiki ashram. Citing the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots and the 2016 Jawahar Bagh episode in Mathura, he alleged that criminals enjoyed political protection under the then SP government. Traders, farmers and residents, he claimed, lived in fear before the BJP came to power in 2017. Adityanath also said the then SP government dropped the name Sant Ravidas Nagar for Bhadohi after taking office in 2012, and that the BJP regime restored it.
Voters, he said, had seen the SP’s record in power and rejected it, and “the wooden pot cannot be put on the fire repeatedly. Recalling that Lord Ram had arrived in Ayodhya in the Pushpak Viman thousands of years ago, Yogi said that in independent India, the city was not even given electricity, and its roads were left broken by the Congress and SP governments.
