Shah recalls Muzaffarnagar riots, says SP return would bring back mafia raj

By NewsOnRadar Bureau Last updated Jul 16, 2024

Muzaffarnagar/Saharanpur, Jan 29 (UNI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday recalled the Muzaffarnagar riots and launched an attack against the Samajwadi Party (SP), stating that their return to power would mean the return of criminals, as he campaigned in parts of western Uttar Pradesh, which go to polls in the first phase. Shah campaigned in Muzaffarnagar and Saharanpur. He, however,

cancelled his door-to-door campaign in Deoband of Saharanpur, wrapping up his program there within five minutes. Party leaders said the program was cancelled as a huge crowd had gathered, and Covid-19 protocols were getting violated. Addressing a ‘Prabhavi Matdata Samwad’ in Muzaffarnagar, Shah paid tribute to former prime minister Chaudhari Charan Singh, the founder of Lok Dal, predecessor of Ajit Singh’s Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and also Ajit’s father. He also paid tribute to farmer leader Mahendra Singh Tikait, whose son Rakesh Tikait is among the prominent farmer leaders in the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), which is organising the farmers’ protests. The protests, which had the farmers camping at Delhi borders for over a year, has dented BJP’s prospects in western Uttar Pradesh where the agitations got mass support from farmers. Shah talked about the Muzaffarnagar riots, and said the victims were blamed for the incident. “I have not

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been able to forget the pain of the riots,” he said, adding that the victory march of BJP in the state in past elections has always started from western Uttar Pradesh. In 2017 Uttar Pradesh polls, BJP had won 66 of the 76 seats in western Uttar Pradesh. “Your one vote can bring mafia raj in Uttar Pradesh and the same vote can instead bring freedom from mafia raj. If SP-BSP government is formed, mafia raj will return, casteism will return,” he said. He also attacked the SP-RLD alliance, and questioned how long would the two remain together. “If their government is formed, Jayant ji will be out and Azam Khan will be back in government,” Shah said, referring to RLD leader Jayant Chaudhary. The Union Minister said with BJP government in Lucknow, there had been a 70 per cent reduction in dacoities in Uttar Pradesh, 69 per cent fall in cases of robbery, 30 per cent slide in murder cases and 35 per cent fall in cases of kidnapping. In the belt known as the ‘Sugar Bowl of India’, Shah also said the BJP government had paid about Rs 148,000 crore to sugarcane farmers. “Earlier, 21 sugar mills in the state were closed during the rule of SP and BSP,” he said. “Some farmers told me that sugarcane payment gets delayed… We are going to announce that the interest for the delay will be recovered from that mill and this will be paid to the farmers.” He later also went on a door-to-door campaign in New Sharda Nagar of Saharanpur. BJP President JP Nadda also campaigned in Uttar Pradesh and went to Etawah, Auraiya and Bareilly. Addressing a rally in Etawah, Nadda attacked farmer leaders and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has worked for the farmers. “People, who have never done any good to the farmers, are also roaming around with fists filled with grains. Many people tried to become farmer leaders, many called themselves farmer leaders, but no one has done the work that Modi ji did for the farmers,” he said. The elections in Uttar Pradesh will take place on February 10, 14 , 20, 23, 27, March 3 and 7.