LUCKNOW: Wheeling out a significant political message, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday affirmed that Muslim women of UP were coming out quietly from their houses to vote in favour of the BJP.
"Humari Muslim behenon aur mataon ne Modi ko aashirwaad dene ka mann bana liya hai...woh janti hain ki jo sukh dukh mein kaam aata hai wo hi apna hota hai...(Muslim women have made up their mind to shower their blessings on Modi. They know that the one who stays with them at all times is the real well-wisher)," he said, while addressing a public rally in Akbarpur area of Kanpur (Rural). Modi's pointed outreach at Muslim women, marked a fresh nudge at the Samajwadi Party which banks heavily on support of Muslim voters to thwart BJP's chances of coming back to power.
He said his observation stemmed from the first two phases of polls – which essentially covered west UP having a sizable population of Muslims. Modi categorically hoisted the law framed by his government against instant Triple Talaq that empowered the Muslim women against atrocities they and their family members faced.
‘Triple talaq ban helped many Muslim women save marriage’
He cited a report which said that thousands of Muslim women in UP managed to save their marriage because of the law banning Triple Talaq.
He asserted that the voting trends clearly indicated that the BJP was coming back to power with great fanfare with people voting in favour of the party without getting divided in terms of caste and religion. "The women voters themselves have raised the banner of BJP's victory in the name of security and honour and saying that only Yogi is ?Upyogi'," he said, claiming that the "parivarwadis" will be forced to bite the dust. "They were defeated in 2014, 2017 and 2019...they would once again get defeated. Holi would be celebrated 10 days in advance in UP. People will start celebrating Holi from March 10 (the day of counting of votes)," he declared.
In an apparent attack on SP-RLD combine, Modi said that the opposition comes with a new partner in every election. "Can you expect support from those who frequently change partners," he questioned, insisting that the opposition parties had the tendency to "blame their partners" after facing a defeat. The remark was seen as a reference to the SP chief Akhilesh Yadav statement that "he had faltered" by striking an alliance with Congress in 2017. The same happened after 2019 Lok Sabha elections when BSP chief Mayawati snapped ties with SP claiming that Akhilesh was not able to transfer his vote bank to her party. "After March 10, they will again start blaming each other...tu tu main main karenge," he said.
He categorically flayed the previous SP and BSP governments for looting the state and handing it the state to "mafia, rioters and criminals". Modi said that the previous government used to allocate districts and regions totheir family members who would then resort to loot.
"Had they got a chance they would have turned each locality of Kanpur in ?mafiaganj'," he said, extolling the Yogi Adityanath government of taking such strict measures against mafia dons whose 'mafiagiri" was gasping for breath. "Agar unko SP jaisa doctor mil gaya to fir se saansein daudne lag jayengi," he said, accusing the Akhilesh Yadav-led outfit of aspiring to come back to power to give a new lease of life to criminals. The PM charged the SP of creating "demons" like ?ration-mafias' who would usurp food grains meant to be distributed among the poor.
"The double engine government of the BJP got rid of them by cracking on fake ration cards. It was after 100 years that the poor were able to get ration despite a raging Corona pandemic," he said. The PM also rebuked the previous SP government for creating hurdles in the construction of houses for the poor.
