Amit Shah says ‘BJP cleared Uttar Pradesh’s east of mafia’ 

Amit Shah

BJP president Amit Shah, on Friday, stated that Purvanchal, or eastern Uttar Pradesh, was deprived of development since the time of Jawaharlal Nehru, and was under either “mafia” or “machchhar (mosquitoes, implying filth)” rule under Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party governments, and has seen development only under the BJP governments of Narendra Modi at the Centre and Yogi Adityanath in the state.

Amit Shah, who was in Maharajganj and Jaunpur districts of the region to address BJP booth workers, further said successive governments under the SP and the BSP made Purvanchal a “corridor of terrorism”, while the BJP gave the “eastern highway and defence corridor”.

 He reassured his party workers about the BJP’s commitment to construct a Ram temple and told them not to be worried about the SP-BSP alliance in the state. “Nehru ke zamane se jo Purvanchal ka vikas nahi hota tha, Purvanchal Vikas Board yeh BJP ki sarkar ne kiya (Purvanchal has been backward since Nehru’s time, but the BJP constituted the Purvanchal Development Board).”

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