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  • ‘Those who used to hold iftars, now visiting temples’: Uttar Pradesh dy CM targets Samajwadi Party

    By PTI

    HARDOI (UTTAR PRADESH): In a barb directed at the Samajwadi Party, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Thursday said those who used to hold iftar parties during their regime are visiting temples now.

    His statement comes days after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s controversial ‘abba jaan’ remarks, also apparently targeting the SP and the Muslim community.

    In the fresh BJP attack on Akhilesh Yadav and his Samajwadi Party, Maurya said Thursday, “When there was his government in the state, he used to hold Roza-Iftar parties. When there was Kumbh during his regime, he did not go there to take a bath. But after the formation of the BJP government, he is visiting temples. This is an ideological victory of the BJP.”

    Maurya was here to lay the foundation stone and inaugurate schemes worth over Rs 1,372 crores. He also announced schemes worth Rs 300 crores for the district. “The same Akhilesh who used to turn his face after seeing Hindus has to take a dip in Haridwar and touch the feet of saints. Now he is declaring himself to be a Ram bhakt and Krishna bhakt,” he added.

    In Kushinagar on Saturday, Adityanath had remarkedpeople who say “abba jaan” used to digest all the ration earlier.

    While SP chief Yadav had hit back at Adityanath, saying the statements betrayed the “sanskar (values)” of the chief minister, Union minister and BJP leader Smriti Irani defended the his constitutional right to put forward his views.

    The deputy chief minister Thursday also said that in the 2022 assembly polls, the BJP will get over 300 seats.

    On Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s promise of providing 300 units free electricity if his party wins the polls in Uttar Pradesh, Maurya said the AAP is running the Delhi government like a Nagar Nigam. “They (AAP) will not get candidates for all the seats and will not be able to win a single seat in UP. In such a scenario, he is making promises only,” he added.

    He said law and order situation under the BJP regime has improved and bulldozers are running on illegal properties earned through ill-gotten money.

  • Country belongs to all, maintain restraint in comments: JDU on Yogi Adityanath’s ‘abba jaan’ remark

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: The country belongs to everybody, be it Hindus, Muslims, Christians or any other community, and political parties should maintain restraint in their comments, JDU president Lalan Singh said on Tuesday as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s ‘abba jaan’ remark in a public speech stoked a row.

    “Terms like ‘unity in diversity’ are used for our country. The country belongs to all. No remarks should be made that harm the country,” Singh, a confidant of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, told reporters when asked for his reaction to the BJP leader’s comments.

    In this context, he also took a swipe at JMM leader and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren for his remarks allegedly aimed at Bhojpuri and Magahi-speaking people of the state. “Everybody has a right to settle in whichever part of the country they like,” he said.

    Addressing a programme in Kushinagar on Sunday, Adityanath had alleged that people did not get rations before 2017 like they do now. “Because then, people who say ‘abba jaan’ used to digest the rations. The rations of Kushinagar used to go to Nepal and Bangladesh. Today, if anybody tries to swallow the rations meant for poor people, he will land in jail,” the chief minister had said.

    ‘Abba jaan’ is the Urdu term for father.

    In his press conference, the JD(U) president, a Lok Sabha MP from Munger, also played down the decision of his party, the biggest BJP ally, to send its senior leader K C Tyagi to a rally being organised in Jind on September 25 by INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala, seen as part of efforts for forming a non-BJP, non-Congress front.

    “We are strongly part of the NDA (BJP-led alliance),” he said, and dismissed talks about a third front, saying his party will attend the rally as it is being organised to mark the birth anniversary of Devi Lal, a towering third front leader of his era.

    Singh also cited Kumar’s old association with Chautala. Chautala had invited the Bihar chief minister, who has expressed his inability to attend it. The JDU leader also named former MLA Khiru Mahto and Gulab Mahto as the party’s president and vice-president respectively for its Jharkhand unit.

    Singh said the JDU used to be a strong party in the state and added that the appointments are part of its effort to strengthen the regional party in different parts of India.

    The party will also strongly fight the upcoming assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh and Manipur, he said, adding that it would like to be a part of the BJP-led alliance and fight on its own if the tie-up does not happen.

    JDU sources said the party is likely to organise its national executive meeting in Uttar Pradesh in November and its office-bearers meeting in Manipur as it works to tone up its organisational machinery in the two states.