If SP comes to power, they will work for only one caste and religion: Amit Shah in UP

Union Home Minister Amit Shah accused SP chief Akhilesh Yadav of playing selective caste and religion politics and said that he will work only for one caste and religion if voted to power.

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday (February 28) in a veiled attack on Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav accused him of playing selective caste and religion politics and said that he will work only for one caste and religion if he is voted to power.

"Akhilesh Yadav has two spectacles. From one spectacle, he can see only one caste and from the other spectacle, he can see only one religion, which will not benefit me or you. If Samajwadi Party comes, it would work only for one caste, if BSP comes, it would work for another caste,” ANI quoted Shah as saying in a rally in Siddharthnagar.

Talking about his party, the home minister said, "If BJP comes to power, everyone would benefit as we believe in ‘Sabka Sath Sabka Vikas."

Shah, who was also confident of breaching the 300 seat mark in the ongoing Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, said that the people who have voted the party to a majority in the first five phases of the elections will now "have to vote in the sixth and seventh phases.”

"Highlighting the law and order situation in the state, Shah said that if Samajwadi Party is voted to power, Atique Ahmed and Mukhtar Ansari will be out of jail.

"Under the rule of SP-BSP, the mafia captured the land of the poor. Is any mafia seen today? Where is Atique Ahmed? Where is Mukhtar Ansari? Do you want them to be in jail or out on bail? If you vote them to power by mistake, all of them will be out and pester you. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has freed Uttar Pradesh from the mafia," he said.

In the sixth phase, polling will be held in 57 assembly seats in 10 districts on March 3.

The 2022 Assembly elections are being held in Uttar Pradesh from February 10 to March 7 in seven phases to elect 403 members of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly.

The votes will be counted and the results will be declared on March 10, 2022.