After BSP, Amit Shah trains guns at Akhilesh Yadav

BJP president Amit Shah on Tuesday blamed the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh for all the ills plaguing the state, from the Mathura violence and Dadri tension to irregularities in the implementation of MGNREGA and corruption and lawlessness.

After attacking the BSP for the past several months, the BJP has now trained its guns at the Samajwadi Party. Mr Shah told reporters here on Tuesday that the Akhilesh government was acting as a barrier blocking welfare schemes formulated by the Modi government and preventing the benefits from percolating down to the common man for political reasons. “Whether it is funds for Bundelkhand or MGNREGA or the e-register for labourers, the state government has no interest in pushing things forward. Funds are lying unused,” he said, adding that in any case there were “about six chief ministers in UP”, which explained the total lack of governance. The BJP president said the Akhilesh government was neck-deep in corruption and that on this issue the SP and BSP were on the same page.

Asked to comment on the Samajwadi Party’s allegation that Naxal involvement in the deadly clashes in Mathura reflected the failure of Central intelligence agencies and that the Union home minister should resign over this failure, Mr Shah said, “Law and order is a state subject, but, if the state government wants, we will take it into our hands and set everything right.”