SP-Congress, BSP trying to polarize politics: Jaitley

TIL Desk/National/Varanasi (UP)/ The SP-Congress coalition and the BSP are trying to polarise politics in Uttar Pradesh at a time when the electioneering has entered the last phase, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said. He said the SP and the BSP have fielded candidates with criminal and tainted backgrounds to polarise the polls.

“This kind of politics has been successful only to a certain level… There is also an opposite reaction.. The diminishing returns of such politics will also surely make them (political parties) suffer badly,” the BJP leader said.

“Anger is brewing in the society against such kind of politics,” he said, adding, “a large section is now in a mood to revolt against such politics.” Jaitley, who was here in the Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, claimed that the voters in UP are fed up of the “misrule” by the BSP and the SP and their caste-based politics.

Suggesting discrimination, he said the government benefits reach only certain classes which “get jobs on priority”. “These parties have only tried to divide the people in the society for their personal gains,” Jaitley said. He claimed that the social base of the BJP had expanded and it was “clearly visible” in the ongoing elections. “The poor and the deprived sections are now standing in support of the BJP,” he said.