Home Minister Amit Shah  lashed out at the Samajwadi Party, contending that Uttar Pradesh would “supply terrorism all over the country” if the other party came to power. Ahead of the third phase of the ongoing state Assembly elections, both Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh also assured today that the BJP would provide two free gas cylinders every year if re-elected in the state. 

“If by any chance the cycle government (the Samajwadi Party’s symbol) comes to power, Uttar Pradesh will supply terrorism all over the country…under Akhilesh government 2,000 farmers died out of hunger during famine,” Shah said today during a public event in Banda district’s Tindwari Assembly area.

Under Chief Minister Yogi Adiyanath, the senior BJP leader added during another address in Raebareli, “there are no bahubalis anymore in Uttar Pradesh…there’s only Bajarangbali” in the state. He also accused the Opposition parties (the SP, BSP and Congress) of “taking votes in the name of the poor” and said that no Prime Minister apart from Narendra Modi had done good for the poor. 

“Akhilesh Yadav was asking me a few days ago what happened in the law and order situation. Those whose spectacles are yellow, they see yellow. Let me tell you that after coming to BJP government in UP there has been 72% reduction in dacoity, 62% in robbery, 31% in murder, 29% in kidnapping, 50% in rape,” the BJP’s official Twitter handle quoted him as saying. 

Addressing rallies in the poll-bound state, both Shah and Singh promised that the BJP-led government would provide two free gas cylinders every year if voted to power once again. “If BJP is voted to power, two gas cylinders every year will be provided for free, one on Holi and the other on Diwali. We will also provide a scooty to girls during their graduation,” the Defence Minister said in Mankapur today.