Akhilesh cautions people against BJP and BSP

Hitting out at opposition BJP and BSP, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday  said that while the former was taking the upcoming state Assembly elections towards a “communal agenda”, the latter had grabbed “precious land” in the state by putting up statues.

“There is a need to remain vigilant from BJP as no one knows what its leaders would say during campaigning,” Akhilesh said at a programme here during which he distributed steel plates and glasses to children of government schools on the occasion of Dhanteras.

Referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lucknow speech recently and BJP president Amit Shah’s “Jai Shree Ram” slogan in Etawah on Thursday, he said, “Remember these very people had a different slogan earlier...they used to end their speech with ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’...what is being said now?....