BJP was getting widespread support from the people : Yogi Adityanath

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath after casting his vote in Gorakhpur, on Sunday claimed the BJP was getting widespread support from the people.

 “The BJP will retain both the Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha seats and also win all the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh in 2019 Lok Sabha election as the people have realized only the BJP can ensure all round development and bring a positive change in their life’’, he told the reporters outside the polling booth after being the first person to cast his vote at the primary girls school in Gorakshnath area

‘’People will vote for BJP for the good governance, which we have shown in just one year rule. Even if Congress joined this unholy alliance, then too BJP is not worried as people will reject them too, “the CM claimed.

The UP CM said that in 2017 assembly polls people of UP had rejected both the ‘ Babuas (Akhilesh Yadav and Rahul Gandhi) and `Bua’ (Mayawati) will face the same fate. He said that 2019 it would be a spectacular success for the BJP and the party will win both by polls comfortably.

Reacting on the statement of Congress president Rahul Gandhi on demonetisation in Singapore, Yogi said “People will throw away his appeal wherever he goes. Congress is disseminated because he works with a negative mindset.”

Attacking the BSP and the SP, the chief minister said “SP-BSP alliance is an opportunistic alliance and people will reject them in this by polls. These parties are indulging in negative politics, politics of bargaining and politics of opportunism. The state has suffered heavily due to their negative politics”. Termed by Adityanath a rehearsal for the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the by-elections are witnessing a triangular contest involving the ruling BJP, the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress.

Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, who had vacated the Phulpur Lok Sabha seat, too claimed that there was no doubt that BJP will retain both the seats with similar margin that they have won in 2014. He said the opportunistic alliance between the Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party would not affect the BJP’s victory.

Talking to media after casting his vote at Jawala Devi inter college, Maurya said that the unholy alliance between the SP and BSP will not at all have any impact on the ‘Vijay rath’ of the BJP.  “There would be no vote transfer of BSP to SP candidates as claimed by the parties and they are just giving statements to confuse the voters. The BSP vote bank has shifted to BJP and it will vote for BJP candidates,”Maurya claimed.