Addressing a "Sankalp (pledge) Rally" at the same venue where BJP's prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi addressed a meeting a few months ago, Singh termed BJP "the Danga riots) Party, SP the Goonda Party, and BSP the Lutera Party".
He appealed to the people to come "out of the clutches of the three", and said no welfare had been done in the state under the regimes of BSP or SP.
The people should get rid of both, if they wanted something by way of development and care for the weaker sections, the Union minister said.
He said there was no government worth the name in UP.
Referring to the Muzaffarnagar riots, he said the riots were "engineered by SP and BJP, who had conspired to take political advantage out of it". Singh said the "collusion" was borne out by the fact that SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav had a two-hour meeting with VHP President Ashok Singhal during the Kosi Yatra ahead of the riots.
Calling for the creation of Harit Pradesh comprising UP's western districts, Singh said that it had been seen that small states developed faster and could be better administered. He asked the party workers to take a pledge for the creation of Harit Pradesh, and in the meantime vote for his party.
Earlier, Singh's son Jayant Chaudhri urged the youth of the country to take a pledge that they would not allow "goondaism and communal riots" to prevail.
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