Opposition parties, including Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party and others, attacked the Yogi Adityanath government, alleging that only poverty, unemployment and inflation had soared in the four-and-half-year rule of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh.

“The report card released by the government highlighting its achievements is full of lies, the opposition parties charged on Sunday.

Reacting to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's remarks on Sunday that Uttar Pradesh remained riot-free while the governance saw a total changeover from the past in providing benefits of welfare schemes directly to the deserving, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra alleged that the government had “failed” on several counts such as giving jobs to people, dues to farmers and in reining in price rise.

The Congress general secretary said the Uttar Pradesh government should have answered people's questions on its four-and-a-half years in power, but it was continuing to peddle "lies, lies and more lies".

In a tweet in Hindi, Priyanka Gandhi said, "On giving jobs to lakhs and filling up vacant posts, in giving dues on sugarcane, wheat, paddy, potato to the farmers, in reducing electricity prices, in reining in price rise, the UP government has failed.”

In another tweet, she alleged, "What did the BJP government make Uttar Pradesh, number 1 in malnutrition, number 1 in crimes against women, number 1 in kidnappings, number 1 in murder cases, number 1 in atrocities against Dalits."

The Congress leader has been criticising the performance of the Yogi Adityanath government on various fronts and said last week that people were going to change the government and the chief minister in the upcoming assembly polls.

BSP chief Mayawati said, "The advertisement of transformation of four-and-half years is all gas and far from reality... there has been an increase in poverty, unemployment, and inflation, and the bad condition of the public is known to everyone."

Attacking the BJP government, Rashtriya Kisan Manch president Shekhar Dixit said, "Four years ago, a promise was made that the sugarcane price will be paid to the farmers in 14 days. But this was conveniently forgotten, and to date, no statement from the government came on this. Corruption is rampant at the wheat and paddy purchase centres in the state."

He added that the suicide by farmers was continuing. "This government has only taken forward the policies of the previous government. However, you should be congratulated for the ongoing construction of the Ram temple (in Ayodhya). But, please do not open the box of lies about development and transformation," Dixit said.