A day after Yogi Adityanath government completed three years in office and offered gleaming numbers on its achievements, the Congress swung into action and launched a website on the government’s performance.
At the yogijikareportcard.com, the homepage is a slideshow of what the Congress sees as the biggest failures of the government. The first slide says 15 out of every 100 youth in the state are unemployed, the second says there are 163 crimes against women committed every single day while the third says 7,33,601 stray animals have become a bother for the state’s farmers. The next slide draws attention to 5,000 vacant posts of doctors in the state while the one after says that 1,43,926 teaching posts are lying vacant. The last says every day, 33 acts of atrocities are committed against dalits.
Each slide comes with the hashtag #Bhajapa_To_Fail_Hai (BJP is a failure).
Addressing a press conference at the launch of the website, the state Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu said, “In three years farmers are miserable, the youth worried and women unsafe. Law and order has collapsed and crimes are on the rise”.
“We are fighting for the people of the state from the streets to within the Vidhan Sabha. It was important for us to put out the correct report card of the government after its self congratulatory claims”, said Lallu.
The data rich website, which has been in the making for some time, aims to take on the government which has planned to send out its ministers to every part of the state to advertise its achievements. Though the COVID-19 pandemic has put a spanner in that large exercise, the chief minister addressed a press conference on Wednesday, listing out his government’s achievements.
The website delves into greater detail on each of the issues it has raised. For instance, on the issue of women’s safety, it points out that crimes against women rose from 49,262 to 59,445 between 2016 and 2018. Of the total number of crimes against women reported in the country, 15.7 per cent are reported from the state as per the National Crime Record Bureau data.
On the issue of unemployment, it notes that the government has accepted in the Vidhan Sabha that between June 2018 and February 2020, the number of unemployed youths registered in employment exchanges saw a leap of 12,53,719. This means a rise of 72 unemployed every hour. In 2018, as per the website, 902 unemployed youth committed suicide which works out to an average of two suicides per day.
‘UP kare sawaal, kya kiya aapne teen saal’ (UP asks what have you done in three years) is the running tagline across the website.
