Mirzapur (UP): Pro-Modi slogans were raised by BJP supporters gathered outside a temple near here on Tuesday as Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi reached a temple here.
As Gandhi got out of her car outside the Vindhyavasini Devi Temple, eight kilometres from here, hundreds of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers started shouting slogans hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The slogan shouting continued even as Gandhi entered the temple to pray. Most of the people in the crowd were regular worshippers, who were stopped from entering the temple given the VIP protocol. Even shops and other establishments near the temple had to down their shutters, which led to the gathering of an angry mob, who shouted: “Har Har Modi”.
Clad in a red sari, the eastern Uttar Pradesh in-charge of the Congress, who spent some 20 minutes praying at the temple, however, remained unperturbed. As the sloganeering continued, she drove off to offer a chadar at the Kantit Sharief dargah near by.
There was a huge crowd outside the mosque waiting to meet her. Most had arrived at 7 a.m., they claimed. Earlier in the day she attacked Modi saying no one was happy with his government. Demanding to know what Modi had done in the last five years, Gandhi told the media in Bhadohi: “Be it farmers, youth or anybody, no one is satisfied with the government.
Together they will change the government this year.”Termed the Yogi Adityanath government’s report cards on its performance in the last two years “fake” and said these did not reflect the ground reality in UP. “One should visit the areas and see the ground reality,” she said.