Meerut: BJP president Amit Shah today launched a scathing attack on Uttar Pradesh's ruling Samajwadi Party saying “it was wedded to one family rule, corruption and thuggery”.
Addressing party workers in Meerut ahead of the upcoming state assembly elections scheduled in 2017, the BJP president said that development of Uttar Pradesh would remain a distant dream unless the ruling Samajwadi Party is ousted.
“Only a grandchild of Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav can become the party's president, there is no place for ordinary workers,” he said.
Shah alleged that while the Central government was sending money to the state government for developmental programmes and schemes, the funds were not being spent well.
"The money sent for you will never reach you," he said.
Shah labelled the merger of don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s Quami Ekta Dal (QEM) with the Samajwadi Party and the later de-merger as a "desperate political drama" to arrest the sagging image of CM Akhilesh Yadav.
"If the goons were to be thrown out of the SP, the whole party will be left with no one," Shah said.
Shah said that the "three-and-a-half chief ministers" have "failed miserably" in maintaining law and order in the state.
The BJP chief also took on Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for seeking details of the works done by the Narendra Modi government.
Rebutting criticism from Rahul that development was not visible in the BJP-led NDA rule, he said, "The Modi government is doing good work and we will present our report card to the people in 2019."
