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People voted for good governance, rejected caste politics: Yogi
PM Narendra Modi’s mantra of development and good governance has again received people’s blessings. The win in UP and four states is proof of this, he says
LUCKNOW Chief minister Yogi Adityanath arrived at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters in Lucknow to a hero’s welcome on Thursday evening and said the unprecedented second consecutive term in UP was a vote for good governance and rejection of caste, dynastic politics and ‘bhramak prachar (misleading campaign)’.
He said the “misleading” campaign run by the opposition over the past 2-3 days had been set aside by the people who reposed faith in the BJP. The ‘bhramak prachar’ referred to the Samajwadi Party’s allegation that the BJP government was attempting to tamper electronic voting machines (EVMs) and influence results. Both the BJP and the SP had approached the election commission, accusing each other of vitiating the atmosphere.
Amid scenes of jubilation at the party office, faces of Adityanath and other BJP ministers were smeared with gulal. Offering and accepting sweets from the cramped, makeshift BJP stage, he also took a veiled jibe at turncoats, including three of his ministers, who rebelled after the model code of conduct came into force in UP.
“The verdict has left the conspirators dumbfounded. When we were battling Covid and trying to help people, there were those who were conspiring against the BJP and its government,” said Adityanath, adding “janata janardan ne unko sabak sikha ke unki bolti band kar di (people taught them a lesson and shut them up).”
Three of his ministers, including labour minister Swami Prasad Maurya, forest minister Dara Singh Chauhan and Ayush minister Dharam Singh Saini, had quit days after the election commission declared the model code of conduct. However, the chief minister, in his victory speech, also cautioned the cadre to balance ‘josh, hosh (energy with common sense)’ and said the mandate had come with a fresh responsibility and commitment to serve the masses.
“PM Narendra Modi’s mantra of development and good governance has again received people’s blessings. The win in UP and four states is proof of this,” said Adityanath.
“UP is the most populous state, and naturally, all eyes were on it. My heartfelt gratitude to the people of UP and party cadre who made this win of BJP and that of its pre-poll allies possible,” he added.
He said the victory was blessings of 25 crore people for the BJP government’s model of ‘rashtrawad (nationalism), ‘vikas (development)’ and ‘sushasan (good governance)’ and his government would take it forward.
Accompanying Yogi were both the deputy chief ministers – Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma, party’s state BJP chief Swatantra Dev, general secretary (organization) Sunil Bansal, ministers, BJP’s pre-poll ally Nishad party chief Sanjay Nishad. Also present was Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav’s sister-in-law Aparna Yadav who had joined the BJP after the announcement of elections.
“For five years, UP created an environment of security, restored respect to citadels of faith, undertook the pro-poor and development policies under the PM’s guidance. The people rejected the politics of caste, dynasty to again vote the BJP to power,” he said.
“Even during Covid period, under PM’s guidance, we worked and thus each of our cadres deserves applause for this win,” he said. “More than 2 crore houses of poor got toilets, there were over 45 lakh houses for poor, power for 1.45 crore families, more than 10 crore families got ₹5 lakh free medical insurance cover, 15 crore poor got free rations during Covid time,” added Adityanath.
