Addressing the Uttar Pradesh Assembly today, the state’s Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath, told the Samajwadi Party that it would not win a single seat in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Adityanath was speaking at the Monsoon session which kicked off on August 7. Recounting his government’s achievements, he said that the opposition should have the ability to accept the truth, even though it is bitter.
He addressed SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, and said, “Those born with silver spoons do not know the pain of the poor and the downtrodden…You need not worry about the state as you will not be able to open your account in 2024”.
“The public has rejected you in 2014, 2017, 2019 and 2022…for you, the lines of Hindi poet Dushyant Kumar, that you have no ground beneath your feet are most apt”, he said.
There were also jibes reserved for ‘chacha-bhatija’ (uncle and nephew), a term that is used for Shivpal Yadav and Akhilesh. In reference to the duo, the CM said that between 2012-17 (when SP was in power), the younger Yadav gave no money to the irrigation ministry— a portfolio which was held by Shivpal. “He was scared that chacha would overshadow him”, Adityanath said.
The CM also returned to the elder Yadav when someone from the opposition shouted about the damage being caused to farmers by ‘BJP’s bulls’. Adityanath said, “Yes, they are our bulls, we worship them as Nandi…Shivpal ji don’t you worship Nandi…make them (SP legislators) understand that”, he said. And again he said that there had been grave injustice against Shivpal, and that his party’s complete sympathies lay with him.
He also took on the opposition for saying that Gorkahpur was plagued by water logging during the monsoon. “The people of Gorakhpur are happy…there is no water logging..yet you could only pick up that example from the state”, he said.
Listing the achievements of the government, the CM also said that during the SP rule, those impacted by floods were only given dry bread to eat. “There was no compensation, no relief. The allocated money was eaten up”, he said.
