Etah: In the latest in the string of attacks on the Samajwadi Party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah today questioned Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on the government’s contribution towards the welfare of the people of the state in the last four years. He also claimed that BJP will get two-thirds majority in 2017 UP Assembly polls.
"We are presenting a report card of two years of NDA government, but Akhilesh babu (Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav) you should also tell people what your government did in four years," Shah told booth-level workers in Kasganj.
Shah went on to blame the SP government for blocking several central welfare schemes.
"The central government has launched several schemes for the welfare of farmers like the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana. But the state government has been blocking the central schemes for petty political reasons," he said.
Asking people if they would like to get 24-hour power in the state, he said, "There is no shortage of power, the shortcoming is in intentions. In two years, we (NDA government) gave power to 9,000 villages."
"People ask as to how we will get a majority government in Uttar Pradesh. It will become possible due to your (workers) efforts," he said.
He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has brought a number of schemes for the welfare of people, including free LPG connection for BPL families.
Accusing the ruling Samajwadi Party of shielding the corrupt and the goons, Shah asked why the Akhilesh Yadav government was not acting against those it had itself accused of corruption during the earlier Bahujan Samaj Party rule.
"They came to power on the plank of ending corruption allegedly prevalent during the BSP government. Why have they not acted against any corrupt in the last four years and sent them to jail?" the BJP chief said.
Hitting back at Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi for questioning what his party has done in the past two years, BJP chief Amit Shah said it has given the country a Prime Minister who speaks.
"Recently Rahul baba asked what BJP has done in two years...at least we gave a Prime Minister who speaks, otherwise in 10 years regime of UPA except Soniaji and Rahul baba, no other person heard the voice of the PM," he said.
