Uttar Pradesh: CM Yogi compares Samajwadi Party's rule with medieval period dynasties

LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath once again mounted a blistering attack on the Samajwadi Party on Friday, comparing its previous government in UP with the rule of "medieval period dynasties" which targeted temples and trampled sentiments of the Hindu community.
"Pichli sarkar ka karyakaal madhyakaleen kalkhand ki yaad dilata hai jab mandir tode jaate they aur Hinduon ki bhawnaon ko kuchala jata tha..un par kutharaghat kiya jata tha," Yogi thundered, while speaking at BJP's Samajik Pratinidhi Sammelan in Lucknow.
Yogi's fresh attack on SP came a day after he censured the previous Mulayam Singh Yadav government for ordering firing on "Ram Bhakts" on November 2, 1990.
"After coming back to power in 2012, the first decision which the SP government took was withdrawal of cases against those who were accused of perpetrating terror in Ram Janambhoomi," Yogi charged, even as he blamed the previous Akhilesh Yadav government of getting people of Hindu community implicated under false charges.
“Atankwadiyon ki toh aarti utari jaati thi…,” he went on, adding that the police stations and tehsils were mortgaged to party workers who indulged in `loot' of resources.
Yogi said that the coming of Ram Temple in Ayodhya signified “rectifying a fault”. It also meant that people with self-respect were “unwilling” to accept slavery, he said.
At the same time, he unleashed a scathing tirade on Congress, accusing it of doing politics "at the cost of the country" while indulging in corruption and putting the security of the country at stake. “Today, Pakistan or China cannot invade India’s territory. And if they do, then the country knows to repulse it,” he said.
The CM maintained that it was Congress which sowed the seeds of terrorism in 1952 by framing Article 370 that gave special rights to Jammu and Kashmir.
“The BJP has done away with the article…na rahega baans…na bajegi bansuri…” he remarked, while addressing the convention focusing on Chauhans among OBCs
Terming representatives of the community as 'praharis' of society, Yogi exhorted them to reach out at the grassroots and tell people as to why a BJP government was important in 2022.
“No one can dare orchestrate communal violence in the state in the BJP government. No criminal or mafia can encroach public or private property,” he maintained.
He said that the 2007 communal violence in Azamgarh erupted just because a call was given to sing `Vande Mataram’, the national song. “Whoever tries to ban Vande mataram should be dislodged,” Yogi said.
He asserted that his government had fulfilled all basic needs of various communities. “It was now time for representatives of these communities to tell people how the BJP government worked for its welfare,” he said.
The CM also charged the opposition parties of having no interest in welfare of the poor and the backward classes. “It was under these circumstances that the BJP under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi gave the slogan of `Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’,” he said, reiterating that the various development projects and welfare schemes of the Centre and the state government were being implemented without any discrimination on the basis of caste and religion.