ALLAHABAD: The Uttar Pradesh elections may still be eight months away, but the bitter slugfest have begun. Two recent incidents of exodus of Hindu families from Kairana following rising crime graph, violence in Mathura are likely to escalate in the coming days. BJP chief Amit Shah referred to both the incidents in his speech to attack Akhilesh Yadav government.
BJP also stopped short of making any announcement for the UP polls says Amit Shah would take decision in coming days. Replying to Express question if BJP has decided on its election management for the poll bound states like Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Punjab, Himachal and Uttarakhand, senior leader and finance minister Arun Jaitley said party chief would take a call on it in the coming days.
“We already state presidents, state incharges who are doing the work. Party chief may even appoint election incharge in addition to that. It is his prerogative,” Jaitley said laying to rest any questions regarding CM face.
Apart from Shah two of senior BJP leaders and ministers also termed the incidents of Mathura and Kairana as serious. As Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav attacked BJP for spreading lies on the incidents, Jaitley challenged Yadav for making the next elections “as referendum on law and order in the state.” He was addressing a press conference here.
BJP has even set up team which would travel to Kairana to investigate the matter. The seven-member committee consist of four MPs and three leaders from Uttar Pradesh.
Transport Minister and former party chief Nitin Gadkari said the Kairana incident was "not good" for democracy, and promised "proper action" after probe by a party team into the "very sensitive matter".
Modi too in his speech had spoken against the spectre of communalism in order to achieve development in the state.