Mayawati, Akhilesh Yadav Pushed UP To 'BIMARU' Category: Amit Shah
NDTV
UP Polls: Targetting the previous governments of Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati, Amit Shah said the casteist governments of "bua-bhatija" could not do any good to UP.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday slammed the previous Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) governments for pushing Uttar Pradesh to the category of BIMARU states, saying the "bua-bhatija (aunt-nephew) governments are not good for UP".
Addressing a gathering at Atrauli, Mr Shah said, "The elections of 2014, 2017, 2019 have been the ones that changed the fate of Uttar Pradesh. The casteist governments of bua-bhatija could not do any good to UP; the state came under the category of BIMARU state. The BJP government worked to bring about a change."
BIMARU is an acronym formed from the first letters of the names of the states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh. It was coined in the mid-1980s. BIMARU has a resemblance to a Hindi word meaning "sick".