Lucknow: ISO BJP To revisit his 2017 election script SP In the same political framework? This question became relevant with the expansion of the BJP Karaana The issue of exodus, fueling the story of another rift in the Yadav first family and criminalizing politics, engulfs the SP.
A senior BJP leader confirmed that the issue of ‘Kairana exodus’ is touching a raw vein among the people. “The Exodus The number of Hindu families in Kairana has always been a matter of concern before and after the BJP came to power. Our priority was to help these people return home.”
In June 2016, then BJP MP Hukum Singh released a list of 346 people who were forced to migrate from the Muslim-majority town of Kairana in western UP due to “intimidation and extortion by criminal elements of a particular community”. Was. Later, Singh retracted his statement saying that the exodus from the city was “essentially a law and order issue”, but the “escape” narrative caught up with the communally sensitive area. With Amit Shah in charge in 2013, the UP BJP saw the Akhilesh Yadav-led SP government hammering away with assembly elections just a few months away.
Limited to January, 2022. Shah, now a high-profile Union minister, was back in Kairana. He knocked on the streets of the city to campaign door-to-door behind the BJP’s 2017 strategy to turn western UP into the epicenter of the saffron wave.
Indeed, soon after the SP-RLD released its first list of candidates on January 13, BJP ranks accused Akhilesh of fielding Nahid Hasan from Kairana while accusing him of masterminding the Hindu exodus. Nahid was arrested on January 16 in a case registered under the UP Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act at Kairana Kotwali in February last year, with his sister Iqra Hassan filing nomination as a backup.
The Samajwadi Party termed it as a BJP ploy to communalise the UP elections. “They have nothing to show. That is why they are taking up Kairana again,” said SP spokesperson Abdul Hafiz.
He insisted that the BJP’s attempt to increase the “so-called rift” in the Yadav family was also part of the same script. In a veiled reference to the defection of the younger daughter-in-law of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, he said, “The leaders who are leaving the SP have no mass base and their defection will not affect the SP’s electoral prospects.” Kanoon, Aparna, and their two relatives, Pramod Gupta and Hari Om Yadav, in the BJP camp.
But BJP leaders insist that the rift in the Yadav family has been going on for a long time and they will come out in the open in case of a power struggle. UP BJP spokesperson Hero Bajpai said, “Earlier it was between Akhilesh and his uncle Shivpal, now it is between Akhilesh and his younger brother Prateek’s family. In 2017, a standoff between Akhilesh and his uncle Shivpal Yadav caused a rift in the SP’s first family just before the election.
The BJP is also intensifying its attack on the SP leaders by saying: “Yeh Nai Nahi… Yeh Wahi Sach Hai”. cm Yogi Adityanath criticized the SP leadership for fielding candidates with criminal history in the first two phases of the UP elections. Yogi, in fact, slammed the SP for not coming out of the “Tamancha” mentality and fielding candidates responsible for the riots in Saharanpur and Muzaffarnagar.
In 2017 also, the BJP raised the issue of poor law and order during the SP rule and accused it of harboring criminals and mafia.
A senior BJP leader confirmed that the issue of ‘Kairana exodus’ is touching a raw vein among the people. “The Exodus The number of Hindu families in Kairana has always been a matter of concern before and after the BJP came to power. Our priority was to help these people return home.”
In June 2016, then BJP MP Hukum Singh released a list of 346 people who were forced to migrate from the Muslim-majority town of Kairana in western UP due to “intimidation and extortion by criminal elements of a particular community”. Was. Later, Singh retracted his statement saying that the exodus from the city was “essentially a law and order issue”, but the “escape” narrative caught up with the communally sensitive area. With Amit Shah in charge in 2013, the UP BJP saw the Akhilesh Yadav-led SP government hammering away with assembly elections just a few months away.
Limited to January, 2022. Shah, now a high-profile Union minister, was back in Kairana. He knocked on the streets of the city to campaign door-to-door behind the BJP’s 2017 strategy to turn western UP into the epicenter of the saffron wave.
Indeed, soon after the SP-RLD released its first list of candidates on January 13, BJP ranks accused Akhilesh of fielding Nahid Hasan from Kairana while accusing him of masterminding the Hindu exodus. Nahid was arrested on January 16 in a case registered under the UP Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act at Kairana Kotwali in February last year, with his sister Iqra Hassan filing nomination as a backup.
The Samajwadi Party termed it as a BJP ploy to communalise the UP elections. “They have nothing to show. That is why they are taking up Kairana again,” said SP spokesperson Abdul Hafiz.
He insisted that the BJP’s attempt to increase the “so-called rift” in the Yadav family was also part of the same script. In a veiled reference to the defection of the younger daughter-in-law of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, he said, “The leaders who are leaving the SP have no mass base and their defection will not affect the SP’s electoral prospects.” Kanoon, Aparna, and their two relatives, Pramod Gupta and Hari Om Yadav, in the BJP camp.
But BJP leaders insist that the rift in the Yadav family has been going on for a long time and they will come out in the open in case of a power struggle. UP BJP spokesperson Hero Bajpai said, “Earlier it was between Akhilesh and his uncle Shivpal, now it is between Akhilesh and his younger brother Prateek’s family. In 2017, a standoff between Akhilesh and his uncle Shivpal Yadav caused a rift in the SP’s first family just before the election.
The BJP is also intensifying its attack on the SP leaders by saying: “Yeh Nai Nahi… Yeh Wahi Sach Hai”. cm Yogi Adityanath criticized the SP leadership for fielding candidates with criminal history in the first two phases of the UP elections. Yogi, in fact, slammed the SP for not coming out of the “Tamancha” mentality and fielding candidates responsible for the riots in Saharanpur and Muzaffarnagar.
In 2017 also, the BJP raised the issue of poor law and order during the SP rule and accused it of harboring criminals and mafia.
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