Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath invoked Pakistan at a political rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Amroha on Friday.

Amroha, UP:

Citing Pakistan, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath told a political rally on Friday that while people in neighboring countries were battling hunger, “800 million people in India are receiving free rations” “.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, while addressing a poll rally in Amroha in western Uttar Pradesh, also said that the saffron party’s “phir ek baar Modi sarkar” slogan is reverberating across the country.

Mr Adityanath was addressing Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a rally organized in support of Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Kanwar Singh Tanwar. Kanwar Singh Tanwar is the BJP candidate from Amroha constituency in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls.

“Pakistan was established after partition in 1947 with a population of only 230-240 million, but now it is starving. This is also an example of Pakistan on one side and Pakistan on the other. It is the promise of free rations to more than 800 million people,” said the chief minister.

The BJP, in its manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls, promised to continue providing free ration to the country’s over 800 million people in the next five years.

Mr Adityanath said, “Only one slogan was heard from all sides – ‘phir ek baar Modi sarkar’”.

He welcomed Modi to Amroha and praised him for bringing changes in the country.

Mr Adityanath was addressing the rally as the first phase of Lok Sabha polls was underway in eight constituencies in western Uttar Pradesh. Amroha will go to the second phase of voting on April 26.

Tanwar won the Amroha seat in 2014 but was defeated in 2019 by Denmark Ali, who was then affiliated to the Samajwadi Party (BSP). Ali is once again vying with Amroha for a seat in Congress.

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