SP back to power would mean return of extortion, anarchy, rowdyism: UP CM Yogi Adityanath

LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday hit out at Samajwadi Party's 2022 election campaign catch line -- "Aa Raha Hun" -- saying that the slogan implied return of "anarchy, goondagardi, kidnapping, extortion and communal conflagration" in the state.
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath tore into the opposition saying that they "vied for hosting Iftar parties" while putting at stake the "secular" credentials of the country that envisaged "equality for all."
Terming the SP ranks as people with "criminal mind-set" who aimed to "tear the social fabric", Yogi accused them of doing politics at the cost of the country. He was speaking at the Samajik Pratinidhi Sammelan organised by the BJP to consolidate the OBCs ahead of the UP elections due in the next few months,
Yogi's fresh attack on SP came a day after PM Narendra Modi launched a caustic diatribe at the Akhilesh Yadav-led political outfit accusing it of corruption and halting the growth of the state. "Every section of the society, including youth, women and traders, reeled under the depravity of the previous SP dispensation," Yogi charged, maintaining that during various Hindu festivals, curfew used to be imposed during the previous SP regime.
"Hum aastha ko qaid karke reh jaate they...aaj aisa nahi hai (Our faith got imprisoned. This is not the case anymore)," he said.
The CM said that even when the state and the country faced the Corona pandemic, only the state government, BJP and RSS functionaries worked among the people while the opposition leaders remained largely "quarantined" in their home. "Now it is time to isolate them even in the upcoming state elections," he said, questioning if it was not the responsibility of the Congress, SP and BSP to help people in the time of crisis. He categorically accused the AAP government in Delhi of forcing natives of UP and Bihar to move out of the national capital at the peak of the pandemic. "The same political parties are speaking about doling out free sops to the people considering the upcoming state elections," he said.
Yogi also took a pot shot at the opposition leaders for reaching Ayodhya and offering prayers at Ram Janambhoomi. "Pehle Bhagwan Ram ko gaali dete they... ab jab lag raha hai ki Ram ke bina nayya paar nahi honi hai to Ram Janambhoomi mein darshan karne ja rahe hain," Yogi said. His remark came on the day AAP chief and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal visit to Ram Lalla temple in Ayodhya a day after performing Aarti in Saryu Ghats. "Otherwise, there is not one opposition leader who didn’t curse `Babu ji' (former CM late Kalyan Singh) over the December 6, 1992 incident (when the Babri masjid was pulled down by a frenzied mob of kar sevaks)," he said.
In an apparent bid to step up BJP's OBC outreach, Yogi invoked Kalyan Singh, a Lodh, calling him an "ideal Jan Nayak" who dedicated his life for `desh' (country) and `dharma' (religion). "Ye samaj (Lodh community) dharm ke liye jeene wala hai...marne, maarne wala hai...," Yogi said, The CM announced that after naming the super-speciality cancer institute in Lucknow, the state government will name the upcoming medical college in Bulandshahr in the name of Kalyan Singh. Kalyan got elected to parliament for the first time in 2004 from Bulandshahr.
Yogi said that the example of governance set by Kalyan was being emulated by his government to take UP on a developmental path. He also cited the example of Avanti Bai Lodhi on whose name a new medical college in Etah was dedicated to the people by PM Modi on Monday. He said that of the three women PAC battalions, the one in Badaun, too, has been named after Veerangna Avantibai.