Gorakhpur, Nov 4 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday took a jibe at the Lok Sabha’s Leader of the Opposition, Rahul Gandhi, likening him to a ‘dud firecracker’, alleging that the Congress has repeatedly ‘failed to launch’ the LoP.
The Chief Minister made the remarks at the BJP’s ‘Loktantra Bachao, Arajakta Hatao’ rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur, which the party president Nitin Nabin also attended.
Addressing a gathering, CM Adityanath also targeted Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav over a previous remark made by the latter.
“The Samajwadi Party president says that the next generation will take revenge for every stick and every wound. Explain it a little to the Samajwadi Party’s ‘babua’: in democracy, there’s no revenge; it is the people who bring about change,” he stated.
The CM accused the INDIA bloc of spreading “anarchy” through its Dilli Chalo rally held at the national capital’s Ramlila Maidan, calling it “dangerous” for democracy.
“These (opposition) parties take credit for their hard work whenever they win polls, but blame the EVMs whenever they lose. This has become their nature,” he said.
“Congress, along with its allies in the INDIA bloc, should apologise for spreading anarchy in the country because whenever any Bangladeshi or Pakistani illegal infiltrators get their names added to the voter list, they snatch the right of a poor or Dalit in India,” CM Adityanath added.
He alleged that the INDIA bloc’s “real motive” is to hold India’s constitutional institutions “accountable” and “break the trust” of the public.
“We should not accept such conspiracies,” he stated.
Taking a jibe at the LoP, CM Adityanath said: “We are surprised till when will Congress keep launching Rahul Gandhi.”
He referred to Rahul Gandhi as a “dud firecracker”, saying, “Congress has repeatedly launched him, as an MP in 2014 and then as party president in 2017, where his achievement was that he lost polls (at the party’s home ground) in Amethi.”
“Following this, ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ was undertaken to launch Rahul Gandhi again, but that too was a failure,” he claimed, adding that the Congress party’s ‘Nyay Yatra’ and ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ also met the same fate.
The Chief Minister remarked, “I want to tell Congress that Rahul Gandhi is now 56 years of age. He will never be able to launch himself as he has surpassed his period of youth.”
Further, the Chief Minister invoked the 1975 ‘Emergency’, asking the Congress whether it would apologise to the country for illegally seizing properties and imprisoning people during the period.
“They are deceiving people in order to hide their misdeeds,” he alleged.
CM Adityanath also questioned the date chosen by the INDIA bloc for the ‘Dilli Chalo’ rally, recalling that on November 1, 1984, scores of Sikhs were “massacred” in Delhi.
“The Congress had spoiled the atmosphere of brotherhood between Hindus and Sikhs. When the country and the Sikh community were remembering those killed in the massacre, Congress rubbed salt into their wounds by staging the rally in Delhi,” he remarked.
The Chief Minister drew a comparison between a schoolkid blaming his teacher for scoring low marks and the Opposition leaders.
Referring to Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav, he said: “This pair of boys keep giving the same excuse, that of EVMs, SIR, etc., for their defeat in polls, but never accept their incompetence. It is due to the Congress and the SP’s negative approach that they repeatedly keep getting rejected by the public.
–IANS
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