“Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has said that migration in Kairana has happened due to poor law and order situation. Is (Barack) Obama responsible for law and order in Uttar Pradesh?” he told a conference of booth-level workers of the party in western Uttar Pradesh here.
Referring to Mathura’s Jawahar Bagh incident, where violent clashes between police and encroachers left 29 people dead earlier this month, Shah said the image of Uttar Pradesh has taken a beating.
He blamed the SP government for not allowing the benefits of Centre’s welfare schemes to reach the common people.
“They (SP) are not allowing the benefits to reach the common people of Uttar Pradesh because of the fear that the credit would go to the (Narendra) Modi government,” he added. In a speech that lasted for about half-an-hour, Shah said if any party could defeat SP in Uttar Pradesh, it was BJP, adding that the party would contest the 2017 Assembly polls in the state banking solely on its cadre.
Reminding the party workers that he too had started his political journey as a booth president, the BJP chief said no one can rise from the post of booth president to party president in Congress.
“To rise up to the party president’s post in Congress, one needs to be born into the Gandhi family,” Shah said, adding that the scenario is similar in SP and BSP too.