Azamgarh: BSP president Mayawati today
took a dig at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath
saying that he will look after the development of the state
when he gets time from "puja paath" (worship) in temples.
"Despite being a representative from the backward
Purvanchal area, he has not been able to give attention to its
development...He can focus on it only when he gets time from
his puja paath in temples. Sometimes he is in his Gorakhnath
temple or in Ayodhya or Chitrakoot. Leave alone Purvanchal,
the entire state cannot develop under such circumstances," she
said.
She claimed that the BJP leaders can go for prayers to
temples in Ayodhya, Mathura and Varanasi to hide their
shortcomings but the people would not be misled by their
"religious card".
A new India cannot take shape under the BJP rule, she
said at a party rally in SP patron Mulayam Singh Yadav's Lok
Sabha constituency.
She alleged that the BJP government in the state had not
been able to do anything much to fulfil its promises.
"The previous Samajwadi Party government was not good,
but the present government is worse and is even lagging behind
them," she said.
Charging the BJP with indulging in theatrics, she alleged
that an atmosphere of fear and terror had been created
everywhere in the name of religion and culture.
Muslims and minorities are finding it difficult to
sustain, so much so, that they have stopped keeping cows out
of fear of cow vigilantes and even Hindus are desisting from
it, she added.
