Lucknow, Mar 30 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday accused the Samajwadi Party of insulting the constitutional institutions by commenting on the Election Commission, the judiciary, and the prime minister.
He also accused the party of renaming a college in Kannauj named after B R Ambdekar, and another in Lucknow named after BSP founder Kanshi Ram.
“In other words, while they could not build institutions themselves, they were experts at changing their names. This stemmed from their deep-seated animosity. Even today, by engaging in such acts, they continue to insult society,” Adityanath said at an event where students were disbursed scholarship money.
The SP insulted constitutional institutions, which was akin to insulting Ambedkar, the chief architect of the Constitution, the chief minister alleged.
“They make remarks about the Parliament. They make insulting comments on the prime minister, the leader who speaks for ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’. They make comments on the Election Commission and the judiciary.
“To question India’s constitutional institutions and to point fingers at India’s national symbols means an insult to the Constitution drafted by Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar … and the Dalits of India can never accept that,” he said.
Adityanath said the party insulted Vande Mataram and the National Anthem.
“They will divide society on caste lines. And, when they were in power, they did everything solely to sustain and enrich their own family. These are the people who divide society by creating social discord. In the name of appeasement, they played with national security. It was precisely because of their nefarious deeds that this state had become a ‘BIMARU’ (sick) state,” said the BJP leader.
The acronym ‘BIMARU’ was coined by demographer Ashish Bose in the mid-1980s, formed from the first letters of the names of some of the country’s then poorest states, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.
Adityanath said the youth of UP once faced an acute identity crisis, but that is no longer the case.
“I can proudly declare that our state no longer suffers from an identity crisis. It is now free from riots. It is free from curfews. Today, Uttar Pradesh stands before the nation and the world with a new identity as that of a growth engine of India’s economy and serving as a new model of heritage and development,” he asserted.
Since 2017, over Rs 339 crore has been disbursed to more than 10 lakh families, he said, alleging that earlier such money never reached the people it meant to and was usurped by the so-called “socialists”.
“The poor remained completely unaware of it. They had no recourse other than to wander and face starvation. The goons, who thrived under the patronage of those in power, ran a parallel government,” Adityanath said.
“The Samajwadi Party had the opportunity to govern the state four times. Yet, they displayed absolutely no sense of respect towards a Dalit icon, nor towards a Dalit personality associated with the cause of social justice,” he said. PTI NAV VN VN
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