Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that a government should have the courage to arrest those who played with the law and only the Bharatiya Janata Party government had shown the courage to do so.

Chief Minister Yogi said this in an effective voter dialogue programme in Bulandshahr on Saturday. 

Making a scathing attack on the opposition, he said that this was the same Uttar Pradesh where riots used to happen in the previous governments and curfew was imposed for months but after 2017 the situation in Uttar Pradesh had changed.

Yogi said that today Kanwar yatra was taken out in the same Uttar Pradesh, an airport was being built in Jewar, universities were being built in the name of Shakumbhari Devi in Saharanpur and in the name of Mahendra Singh in Aligarh. He said a medical college named after Kalyan Singh was being established in Bulandshahr and a sports university was being built in Meerut in the name of Major Dhyan Chand.

The chief minister said that Uttar Pradesh was progressing rapidly with a new model of development. He expressed confidence that once again the Bharatiya Janata Party government would be formed in Uttar Pradesh with a thumping majority.

In a blistering attack on the SP, he said that their list of candidates told what their thinking was. "The candidates of Kairana, Loni, Bulandshahr and Saharanpur who have been given tickets by the SP are named in one or the other case. It is clear from the list of SP candidates that their intention is to do politics of disintegration, anarchy and destruction in the country and give protection to mafia and professional criminals,” he said.

He said that earlier in the previous government, bungalows were built for one family, but the Bharatiya Janata Party government built 45 lakh houses for the poor. “This is the difference between the SP and the BJP government,” he said.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the people had taught a lesson to the family, and the casteist and dynastic party in the last elections. He said the BJP party would get the blessings of the people in the 2022 elections as well.

Assuring the future, Yogi said that after the BJP victory in 2022, the party would make Uttar Pradesh towards the number one economy in the country.