Addressing a public rally in Amroha, Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched a sharp attack on the previous Samajwadi Party governments and listed out the changes his administration says it has brought to the state.
CM Yogi said that between 2007 and 2017, the state governments of that period shut down 29 sugar mills, while 21 more sugar mills were sold off at throwaway prices. He argued that had those governments remained in power, Uttar Pradesh's entire sugar industry would have shut down by now. He said the double-engine Bharatiya Janata Party and NDA government is today running 122 sugar mills in the state, and has so far paid sugarcane farmers a total of Rs 3 lakh 23 thousand crore in cane price dues.
Amroha's shrinking distance from Delhi, Lucknow and Prayagraj
The Chief Minister also spoke about improved connectivity. He said that ten years ago, nobody could have imagined that the distance between Amroha and Delhi would shrink so much, or that reaching Lucknow and Prayagraj from Amroha would become this easy. According to him, that change is now a reality, and the government is now working to make the journey from Amroha to Haridwar easier as well. A glimpse of the rally was also shared on Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's official X handle.
"No restrictions before 2017 on faith, now none at all": Yogi
CM Yogi said that the journey his government began in 2017, under the guidance of Prime Minister Modi, has brought security, good governance and prosperity together to Amroha and the rest of the state. He claimed that before 2017, the Kanwar Yatra used to be stopped, celebrations of Krishna Janmashtami were banned, and people were beaten with batons for chanting Jai Shri Ram. According to him, neither was Durga Puja allowed to be held back then, nor could the Kanwar Yatra proceed, nor could the Ram Navami Shobha Yatra be taken out, nor could any Janmashtami event be organised, while the governments of the time stayed silent on all of it. He said that since his government came to power in 2017, there has been no restriction on the Kanwar Yatra, none on the Ram Navami Shobha Yatra, and none on Janmashtami celebrations.
"Jail or hell for those who harm daughters and traders": Yogi's warning
The Chief Minister said that before 2017, riots used to break out in every district of the state and nobody felt safe, neither daughters nor traders. Reiterating his government's stated policy, he said, "There are only two places for those who breach the safety of daughters and traders, either jail or hell." He said his government's promise to crush the mafia into dust has been fulfilled, and the mafia has indeed been reduced to dust. Recalling an incident from 2017, CM Yogi said that when he had come to Amroha to campaign for Mahendra Khadgvanshi, there was so much fear of a particular minister in the area that people were scared to speak openly. He said people were reassured back then that there was nothing to fear, and that once the BJP's double-engine government took charge, the dominance of such influential figures would end. According to the Chief Minister, that is exactly what happened, and the atmosphere of terror in the area came to a complete end.
Only Rs 15 of every Rs 100 reached the ground under Congress: Yogi
CM Yogi said the double-engine NDA government under Prime Minister Modi's leadership is an example of how such a government functions, and asked whether any of this was possible before 2017. Recalling the Congress era, he said the Prime Minister of that time had himself admitted, "I send Rs 100, but only 15 reaches the ground." The Chief Minister asked who used to eat up the remaining Rs 85. He said that money was a poor student's scholarship, a farmer's share of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi, a poor family's ration, a widow's, elderly person's or a disabled person's pension, money meant for building a poor family's house, and money meant for building a toilet, all of which the Samajwadi Party and Congress used to loot. He said that now, under the double-engine government, when Prime Minister Modi sends Rs 100, the full Rs 100 reaches directly into the poor person's bank account. He added that money sent from Lucknow reaches beneficiaries' accounts directly as well, without any deduction. According to him, this is the real model of good governance, one where security exists alongside scheme benefits reaching every section of society without any discrimination.
