Amit Shah
SP's alliance with RLD will last only till counting: Amit Shah predicts in UP poll rally
Muzaffarnagar/IBNS: Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who is campaigning in Western Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar, today predicted that Samajwadi Party (SP) will abandon its poll ally Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) if it won the assembly polls, adding that the future of the alliance is evident from the candidate list.
"Akhilesh Yadav and Jayant Chaudhary are together only till counting. If their (SP) government is formed," he said, taking a dig at the alliance, reported NDTV.
"If their (SP) government is formed, then Azam Khan will sit (in their government) and Jayant Bhai will be out," he continued.
"Their candidates' list can say what will happen after elections," he jabbed.
Earlier, BJP had said its doors were open for Jayant Chaudhary and his RLD. However, he declined BJP's post-poll alliance offer saying, "Who is accepting their invitation? Imagine what condition they are in that they are compelled to invite?" Chaudhary had said, saying he is not a "chavanni" that he will flip so easily, quoted NDTV.
Dismissing the opposition political parties, Shah said BSP, SP, and Congress tried to propagate their own agenda but skipped the issues of development and crime rate.
"Earlier SP-BSP ruled here, when Behenji's (BSP Chief Mayawati) party used to come, she used to talk about one caste. When the Congress party came they used to talk about family and when Akhilesh babu used to come, he used to talk about goondas, mafia and appeasement," he said during today's poll rally.
The SP-RLD alliance will bring the Jat and Muslim votes, which is considered to be a deciding factor in the Uttar Pradesh polls.
Jats and Muslims had parted ways post the 2013 communal riots that rocked Muzaffarnagar. The level of violence in the riots had shocked the entire nation as stories of crime against women and destruction and deaths emerged in magazines and newspapers.
According to experts, this helped in BJP's impressive victory in the 2017 UP assembly elections and also had reverberations in the 2014 assembly polls that put Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the helm of the country.
Shah said he would give figures pertaining to the law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh and challenged Akhilesh Yadav to hold a press conference tomorrow and compare those figures with the crime rate during the SP rule.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav had alleged that the law and order situation in Uttar Pardesh was not good after his plane failed.
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