Noida Jan 23 PTI Rival parties including Congress Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party will not be able to get 100 seats together in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh polls BJP leader Dinesh Sharma on Sunday said Sharma the deputy chief minister of UP said the BJP is fighting the election on development issue and hit out at the opposition parties for encouraging criminal elements communalism in states politics The elimination of regionalism family politics and mafia-rule is the objective of the BJP which fights polls on agendas of development he told reporters while campaigning for partys Tejpal Nagar in Dadri I feel western Uttar Pradesh will break its own previous record by supporting the BJP with more votes this time he said On Priyanka Gandhi Vadra denying she is Congress CM candidate Sharma said he need not say much about it as TV surveys are forecasting a mere 3-7 seats for her party Their combined figures in the upcoming polls will not reach three-digit the deputy CM said predicting opposition parties tally The BJP will get over 50 per cent of the votes and break its own record of securing votes in the state he said of his party which had stormed to power in 2017 with over 300 MLAs in the 403-member assembly Sharma alleged earlier political parties in UP would harp on communal issues and polarize minority voters even winning elections in the past But the people of UP have now tasted the benefits of development Now there is no space for caste-based or communal politics he said Sharma claimed there is a rising fear in public that mafia and criminal elements will come back again in the state as some opposition parties have fielded criminals or their family members as candidates for polls There are also some criminals who are openly supporting some parties indirectly warning people that if people do not support them the criminals will create an atmosphere of terror This should not happen the state has changed now he said UP is no longer a state of exodus but a state of development Anti-social elements do not have any place in UP now Their place has been replaced by development jobs good health education and these are the agendas of the BJP Dadri in western UPs Gautam Buddh Nagar district goes to polls on February 10 BJP has fielded sitting MLA Tejpal Nagar once again from the seat which has 15 other candidates in fray The results will be declared on March 10 PTI KIS VN VN VN

Lucknow Dec 24 PTI Mounting an attack on the SP the BSP and the Congress Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said these parties never showed respect to Maharaja Suheldev who had defeated invader Salar MasoodAddressing the Bharatiya Janata Partys BJP Jan Vishwas Yatra in Bahraich he said Having an institution named after Maharaja Suheldev was a dream and it was Prime Minister Narendra Modiji who made it a reality The foundation stone of a medical college named after Maharaja Suheldev has been laid Attacking the Samajwadi Party SP Adityanath asked the gathering if it had ever shown respect to Maharaja SuheldevWill the followers of Maharaja Suheldev shake hands with the followers of Salar Masood The followers of Maharaja Suheldev will never bow down before anyone he saidVirtually addressing the Jan Vishwas Yatra at Deoria Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya said the BJP government is scripting a new history of Uttar PradeshThe BJP is working for the villages the poor the farmers and the youngsters It had sent free ration to the needy people and BJP workers reached out to every person in the state during the COVID-19 pandemic to help them he saidMaurya exuded confidence that the saffron party will retain power in the state in the 2022 Assembly pollsAddressing the Jan Vishwas Yatra at Fatehpur Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma said the previous governments used to suffer an electric shock seeing saffron robesEarlier the Opposition leaders never used to go to a temple during their tours They used to stay away from bhajan-keertan and used to suffer an electric shock by seeing people wearing saffron robes They used to feel shy calling gau mata as gau mata That is because those insulting the gau mata indulged in the politics of appeasement he said PTI NAV RC