BJP workers will put 'Aligarh locks' on 'Bua-Bhatija' shop: Amit Shah

Aligarh (UP): BJP president Amit Shah ridiculed the SP-BSP alliance for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls on Wednesday, saying party workers would put "Aligarh locks" on the shop of "Bua-Bhatija", referring to BSP supremo Mayawati and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav respectively.

Addressing a meeting of the booth-level workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here, Shah used the "Aligarh locks" coinage as the city was once known for the lock industry, which is now dying.

"BJP workers will put Aligarh locks on the shop of Bua-Bhatija," he said amid an applause from the gathering.

Shah said reporters often asked him how the BJP hoped to win 74 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh with the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) joining hands.

"I tell them that if you see the sea of BJP workers, you will get to know where those 74 seats will come from," he added.

The BJP and its ally, Apna Dal, had won 73 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh in 2014 and five years on, the saffron party hopes to increase its tally in the state.

Shah asserted that the general election would be fought on the lines of Prime Minister Narendra Modi versus the rest.

The BJP had rid Uttar Pradesh of goons, he said,

adding that Chief Minister

Yogi Adityanath had successfully tackled the land mafia problem.