Narendra Modi attacks SP, BSP in speech after BJP’s Allahabad conclave
Narendra Modi also made a veiled attack on the Congress referring to corruption
Allahabad: In a two-pronged attack with an eye on the Uttar Pradesh elections next year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday hit out at the ruling Samajwadi Party.
Accusing it of practising “casteism, communalism, nepotism and hooliganism", Modi also accused the the Bahujan Samaj Party of corruption.
Addressing a public meeting after the two-day National Executive session of the BJP, he also made a veiled attack on the Congress referring to corruption in the purchase of helicopters, aircraft, guns and in giving cooking gas subsidies.
However, his remarks were mainly directed at the Samajwadi Party. Appealing to the people for an opportunity to rule the state, he invoked the greatness of rivers Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati and said the land of Prayag will mark a new beginning by taking to development.
“For this, arrogance , casteism, poison of communalism, corruption, nepotism will have to be sacrificed in the holy fire (yagya) to start the new journey of development," Modi said to the cheers of the party cadre and admirers who repeatedly shouted his name.
Not sparing the BSP, the other major player in the state, the Prime Minister said Mayawati and SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav take turns to accuse each other’s government of indulging in corruption but take no action when each one comes to power. “This is their jugalbandi (duet)," he said.
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