Uttar Pradesh: ‘Sonia looted nation, Chaiwala doing development work’

GORAKHPUR: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president Swatantra Dev Singh on Friday attacked the Congress party saying “Sonia Gandhi looted the nation for 10 years while Prime Minister Narendra Modi has built it”.
On the issue of Ram temple, Singh said, “Those who do not believe in Sanatan Dharma have no right to ask the date of temple construction and those who ask for it should go to Ayodhya and see it for themselves.”
“Sonia (Congress leader Sonia Gandhi) looted the country for 10 years while the Congress was in power, a poor ‘chaiwala’ (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) is not only executing development work but has also abrogated sections 370 and 35A and built a united India,” he said while addressing the party’s Yuva Sammelan in Deoria where the assembly by-poll will be held on November 3.
Singh also appealed to the people to vote in favour of BJP candidate Dr Satyaprakash Mani Tripathi.
“Our policies are for the development of the country and countrymen and opposition is limited to their family development. Those who auctioned jobs during power are not able to bear Yogi Ji’s (Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath) corruption-free good governance. To fulfill their political aspirations, opposition parties are trying to divide the country on the lines of caste and religion and dreaming of returning to power,” he said.
All the major parties — Congress, SP, BSP and BJP — have played Brahmin card in the present Deoria by-poll to be held on November 3 as the seat became vacant after the death of BJP MLA Janmejay Singh in August due to cardiac arrest.
The son of late Janmejay Singh, Ajay Pratap Singh, 45, has decided to contest as an Independent after the party declared Dr Tripathi as the party candidate.