Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Monday assured that the people of Uttar Pradesh were fully secured in his home state and had blamed Congress for hatching a conspiracy to malign the image of Gujarat which had developed due to the support and hard work of the people of other states.
“I can assure you that the situation is normal and every non-Gujarati individual is safe and secure. It is the tradition of all Gujaratis to safeguard the life and property of non-Gujaratis,” Rupani said while claiming that Gujaratis and non-Gujaratis had mixed in the state like “milk and sugar” and they all were behind the development of Gujarat.
Addressing a press conference here on Monday along with his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath, Rupani said that everyone knew who was behind the conspiracy.
“We have arrested around 700 people for the conspiracy in which more than 50 are Congress leaders and workers. They also conspired through social media in which 70 people have been arrested,” the Gujarat Chief Minister said.
Without taking the name of Congress MLA Alpesh Thakor, who was allegedly behind the conspiracy, Rupani said the government had initiated legal action against the legislator.
However, Rupani was critical of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, saying just a tweet against his MLA was not enough.
“Gandhi should have taken action against his MLA and not just tweeting and forgetting everything,” he said, adding that it was surprising that the alleged MLA was also the party in-charge of Bihar and had conspired against the people of Bihar.
Giving reason for such conspiracy by the Congress, the Gujarat Chief Minister said that the party, which was lagging behind Bharatiya Janata Party in the country, had tried to implicate the Gujarat government just before the assembly polls in several states and also to counter the move of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate the Statue of Unity at Sardar Sarovar dam on October 31.
UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath in his brief interaction said that he has accepted the invitation of Rupani to attend the inauguration function of Statue of Unity on October 31. He further said that the Gujarat CM has also accepted the UP’s demand for land to construct a guest house near the Statue of Unity.
“It will be the highest statue in the world and the credit for it goes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Gujarat government,” he said.
Earlier, both the Chief Ministers attended an ‘Ekta Sambaad’ function in which they launched a solar charkha.
Yogi Adityanath on the occasion said that solar power was becoming a revolution in the country and now powerloom would run by it.
“Mahatma Gandhi’s dream of village empowerment will be fulfilled through this solar power revolution and it will also help UP’s policy of One District, One product (ODOP),” he said.
Rupani said that Gujarat had always welcomed the people from other parts of the country and it was the contribution of non-Gujaratis that Gujarat had developed to such an extent.
“In Surat, Baroda and other parts of Gujarat, north Indians are working efficiently to develop the state,” he stated.
He also appealed to the people of UP to visit Gujarat, particularly religious places of Somnath and Dwarka, tourist places like Kutch and Gir forest and Sabarmati Ashram of Mahatma Gandhi, which was the ultimate place for all the people.
Rupani had arrived in the UP capital on Sunday evening and had extended an invitation to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for the unveiling ceremony of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s ‘Statue of Unity’ on the banks of the Narmada river on October 31.
