Shah attacks Samajwadi Party with Kairana, goondaraj barbs

TIL Desk/National/Meerut-BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday hit out at the Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh, saying every time the party comes to power, it becomes government of “goons”.

Addressing thousands of the party’s booth workers from 19 districts in Meerut in preparation for Assembly elections early next year, Mr. Shah raked up the SP’s flip-flop over the merger with the Quami Ekta Dal (QEM). Mr Shah said, “Akhileshji, you should not do this drama of not having an alliance with Mukhtar [Ansari, head of the QEM]. SP is full of Mukhtar, Ateeque and Azam.”

Mr. Shah termed the merger and the ‘de-merger’ later as a “desperate political drama” to arrest the sagging image of Chief Minster Akhilesh Yadav. Mr. Shah also raised the issue of migration from Kairana but avoided terming it communal unlike his initial stand where he had said a Hindu exodus was taking place.