Attacking the Congress president, UP BJP general secretary Pankaj Singh said today that Rahul Gandhi must answer as to why the people in the constituencies represented by him and his family members in Parliament were crying for basic amenities even after so many years of Independence.
"The BJP government in the state under Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is working on the 'sankalp' (pledge) of ensuring availability of electricity and water supply and construction of better roads in the village. When they (Congress) were in power, they had never felt it appropriate to answer to anyone," Singh told PTI here.
"After the BJP came to power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has started the practice of telling the people of the country the work done in a year...We very well understand that we are answerable to the people, and we have to give answers to the people from time to time," he said.
On the electoral understanding between the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party, which halted the saffron party's victory march in the Lok Sabha bypolls in Gorakhpur and Phulpur, the BJP MLA said, "Forging a coalition is their internal matter, and I would not like to comment on it. But, we emerged victorious in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, 2017 UP Assembly polls and the urban local bodies polls held last year. And the reasons for the victory were the able leadership of the party, the development work done by our government and the hardwork of the party workers."
To a question as to what would happen if the Congress also joined the bandwagon of SP and BSP, and the caste equation being not in favour of the saffron party, Singh, who is MLA from Noida assembly constituency, said, "The BJP has always followed the agenda of development, and we are taking UP on the path of development with the thought of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikaas and agenda of Antyodaya (benefitting the last man of the social strata)."
Mounting an attack on the rival political parties, the 39-year-old legislator said, "The people of the state with whom the rival political parties have played the game of votebank politics in the name of caste and community, now understand the 'niyat' (intention) and 'niti' (policy), and will not be befooled. People are looking forward to development. They want job avenues so that unemployment is no more."
On political parties efforts in lauding B R Ambedkar, Singh said, "Ambedkarji should not be confined to any political party or caste. He has given the country its Constitution and the democratic set-up...In fact it is the BJP, which has started the work of developing five places associated with Ambedkar as 'Panchteerth'."
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