With an eye on the crucial Uttar Pradesh assembly polls early next year, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah on Sunday trained his guns at the state’s Samajwadi Party (SP) government and raised the issue of alleged “migration” of Hindus from Kairana and the recent Mathura violence. Speaking at his presidential address at the National Executive meet in Allahabad, Shah said:
The incident at Kairana (town in Shamli district) where a large number of people are migrating is very unfortunate. The Mathura violence was also very unfortunate. The SP government has been unable to control the situation. There is no peace. Here, the atmosphere is of violence and the state government has failed to control all these.
Shah directed his ire towards the Congress, saying its politics of obstructionism had become the hallmark of the main opposition party in the last two years.
Speaking about Shah’s speech, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, said:
While there was policy paralysis in the Congress-led government, our government has made progress with clear policy decisions – where policy decisions are taken by the political leadership and the executive implements them. The previous government was marred by policy paralysis. Our government has been a decisive government that has ended a lot of dilemmas of the previous regime.
Besides calling the past years’ governance an achievement, Shah claimed that the BJP has kept the system “corruption free”.
Besides, these “achievements,” Shah claimed that the BJP performed well in the Assembly elections, with Assam opening gates for BJP in the North Eastern states.
The Congress-led UPA government was in a dilemma whether rural development should take precedence over urban development. Whether there should be reforms or social welfare? Our government has overcome all such dilemmas by striking a fine balance between rural and urban development, reforms and social welfare and issues of governance.
The gathering was attended by who’s who of the party. However, party veteran Murli Manohar Joshi remained absent from the National Executive under speculation of not being invited.
(With IANS inputs.)
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