Amit Shah takes dig at Mulayam Singh Yadav

BJP general secretary Amit Shah today took a dig at Mulayam Singh Yadav, saying the SP supremo harboured prime ministerial ambitions even though he was "unable to handle the situation in Uttar Pradesh".
"He is unable to handle the situation in the state where his party is in power, but he harbours the ambition of becoming the Prime Minister of the country," Shah, a close aide of Narendra Modi said here.
He accused the UPA government of misusing CBI "to protect the corrupt and victimise political adversaries of the Congress party."
Shah showered praise on Modi and claimed that his efficient administration had ensured peace in Gujarat where "not a single hour of curfew has been clamped in any part of the state in the last decade".

He said while there was an acute shortage of electricity in Uttar Pradesh, "nobody cares to buy inverters in Gujarat as there are no power cuts".
The party's general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, attended a meeting of party workers before leaving for Phaphamau on the outskirts of the city where he addressed a 'Kisan Janjagaran Yatra' organised by senior party leader Siddharth Nath Singh.

Meanwhile, SP supporters staged a demonstration at the city's Civil Lines against Shah's visit and accused BJP of "engineering communal tensions" and "polarising voters along communal lines for electoral gains".
They also set fire to an effigy of Shah and raised slogans describing the BJP general secretary as 'Ravan ka avatar'.

Shah, the former Gujarat Home Minister who is facing trial in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case, claimed that during his visits to various parts of UP, he came across "a large number of Muslim youths who believe that only Modi can help them get rid of unemployment".
BJP state president Laxmi Kant Bajpai alleged that while the SP government in the state had "persecuted MLAs and other leaders of our party in connection with the Muzaffarnagar riots", it had been "going soft on those associated with Congress and BSP".