In Azamgarh, Amit Shah asks people to choose between Akhilesh Yadav’s JAM and Yogi Adityanath’s JAM

AZAMGARH: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday launched a frontal attack on Akhilesh Yadav in Samajwadi Party (SP) citadel Azamgarh, asking the people to choose between SP chief’s ‘JAM’ and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s ‘JAM’ in the upcoming UP assembly elections.
Elaborating the acronym ‘JAM’, Shah said, “Akhilesh has come in the field with JAM that means Jinnah (Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan), Azam Khan (SP leader) and Mukhtar (jailed mafia don and MLA Mukhtar Ansari). While Yogi Ji’s ‘JAM’ means Jan Dhan bank accounts, Aadhaar cards and Mobile for everyone to eradicate corruption from its root. Now, people have to decide which JAM they would prefer.”
Shah also publicly endorsed Yogi’s leadership and portrayed him as the next chief minister after elections. “I am asking you to give all Vidhan Sabha seats in Azamgarh district to BJP so that Yogi Adityanath can be made the Chief Minister again,” Shah added.
Laying the foundation of a university, Shah suggested it be named after Hindu warrior king and Rajbhar icon Suheldev, who fought battles to oust the invaders, in a clear message to woo the Rajbhar community and politically decimate the nascent OP Rajbhar-Samajwadi Party electoral alliance.
Accepting Shah’s suggestion, Yogi announced that the university in Azamgarh will be named after Maharaja Suheldev. “On behalf of the state government, I announce that the state university in Azamgarh will be named after great Hindu saviour Maharaja Suheldev,” Yogi said.
Shah, who was addressing a charged gathering near Azam Bandh, about 15kms from district headquarters, after laying the foundation of the university, said, “A place which had turned into a hub of extremists and a harbour for terror modules in the past several years, is now going to be converted into a place of Goddess Saraswati. The era of change for Azamgarh, which had converted into ‘adda’ (den) of anti-national activities, has begun.”
Targetting Akhilesh, Shah taunted, “With the arrival of elections Akhilesh has started considering Jinnah as great. These are the people who divide the society on the lines of caste and community and believe in fanning riots.”
“We expected seats from Azamgarh in the 2014 and 2019 parliamentary and 2017 assembly elections, but failed to get them. It’s enough now. Now, nobody’s account except the BJP should be opened from here. Each seat should go to Modi Ji to make Yogi ji CM again,” said Shah asking the people to go to the field with a pledge to bring BJP back in UP again with 300-plus seats.
Shah said today UP is free of both the menace of mafia and mosquitoes. “East UP districts in the vicinity of Gorakhpur suffered from the deadly Japanese encephalitis due to apathy of previous governments towards sanitation. Yogi Ji not only ended the problem caused by mosquitoes by executing all schemes and programmes of the PM promptly, but also forced the mafia to seek shelter outside UP. The state has been rid of mafia elements and Azamgarh is an example. Thousands of acres of land has been freed from the mafia and is now being used for development work.”
Telling people how the promises of construction of temple at Ram Janmabhoomi and abrogation of Article 370, which were in agenda since inception of Jan Sangh, were fulfilled, Shah said that 10 universities were opened in BJP regime while number of medical colleges went up from 10 to 40 in the same period.
He also highlighted the growth in GDP, improved economy, investments in defence corridor, increased number of airports, activeness of state government in purchase of paddy and other crops and efforts for employment generation.