Lucknow, Jan 8: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said the upcoming state Assembly elections will be that of 80 versus 20, in which BJP will get a share of 80 per cent and 20 per cent will go in the share of the remaining political parties.
Speaking at the DD Conclave organised by Doordarshan here, Adityanath claimed that BJP will win more than 300 seats this time.
“The biggest alliance took place in 2019, when Samajwadi Party (SP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and others contested unitedly. At that time, BJP got maximum 64 seats, BSP 10, SP 5 and Congress won one seat. At that time I had said that BJP will win 65 seats,” Yogi said, when asked about the challenges posed by the opposition in UP polls.
He said this time, the opposition parties are contesting elections separately, from this it is clear that BJP will again win more than 300 seats. “In a healthy democracy, the opposition should get few seats and this should happen,” he quipped.
On a question of the elections being a tough test, he said it was tough and challenging for those who were ill-prepared or half prepared, but they were the ones who got scared. “For us, the election is not a test, but a festival,” he said.
The Chief Minister said that in UP, the BJP government has done only welfare works in the past five years, therefore, it is fully prepared for the polls. Comparing it with a student about to appear in an examination, he said that those students, who prepare for the whole year, are not afraid of appearing in the exam.
Only those students, who do not attend the classes throughout the year and are ill-prepared, get scared. “Therefore I believe that for us, elections are not a test, but a festival,” he added.
Replying to a question, Yogi said, “We have not come into politics to gain power. We have entered politics to fulfill three resolutions. First of nationalism, second of establishing good governance while being in power and third to bring prosperity on every face.”
Regarding ‘Farq Saaf Hai’ (difference is apparent) campaign, he said that before 2017, whenever recruitment process started, there used to be a fight between uncle and nephew who would go on an extortion spree.
“They never thought anything good for the state, nor can they say anything good for the state,” he said.
He said that before 2017, the government and the police used to beg before the rioters, they were felicitated at the CM residence, cases of terrorists were being withdrawn, terrorists used to trigger blasts on their own will, today rioters cannot muster courage to do anything wrong. This is ‘Farq Saaf Hai’.
On SP president Akhilesh Yadav’s claim that Lord Krishna appears in his dreams, Yogi said that Lord Krishna is appearing to warn him that when you were the CM of the state, riots took place in Mathura, incidents like Jawahar Bagh happened and the temples were in a bad shape.
On his priorities in the elections, he said that security and good governance to all, without any discrimination, is his priority.
“We formulated schemes not on the basis of faces, but with the target of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’. Therefore, people are getting positive results of these schemes,” he added.
