Allahabad : BJP on Sunday lambasted the Samajwadi Party-Congress tie-up as an “unnatural, artificial and opportunistic” alliance and said that a “cyclone of change” was sweeping in its favour across Uttar Pradesh.
“The Congress has suddenly discovered virtues in Akhilesh Yadav. We wonder what happened to Rahul Gandhi’s ‘khat sabhas’ and slogans like ‘27 saal, UP behaal’. Does the Congress vice-president now disown his criticism of the SP’s misrule in UP?” asked BJP leader and Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
“We also wonder whether Akhilesh Yadav has learnt anything from the track record of the Congress which has belittled even its own leaders if they happened to be outside the Nehru-Gandhi family. One only has to look at examples of Lal Bahadur Shastri, Narasimha Rao and V P Singh.
“In the recent past too, an ordinance brought by Manmohan Singh was torn and thrown away by Rahul in full public view and termed as nonsense,” he said. Mocking Yadav’s claims of having brought good governance to UP, Prasad said, “He brags about efforts to make the state’s police as efficient as that of New York while his minister Gayatri Prajapati is accused of rape and the poor victim is forced to knock the doors of the Supreme Court just to get an FIR lodged.” -PTI
