Uttar Pradesh polls: JP Nadda slams rival Samajwadi Party over 'appeasement', ‘dynasty politics’ and more

BJP chief JP Nadda lambasted Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, saying it is a party "whose half the leaders are contesting (the elections) from jails, and the rest after getting bail." 

Sultanpur/Amethi: During the Samajwadi Party rule in Uttar Pradesh, a "bandage of appeasement was tied over the eyes of the king" but half of its leaders are now contesting polls from jails and the rest after getting bail, BJP president J P Nadda said on Saturday.

In the last five years of the Yogi Adityanath government, "the law is the same in UP but the rule has changed", Nadda said while addressing campaign meetings in Sultanpur and Amethi which go to the polls on February 27 during the fifth phase of the seven-phase UP assembly polls.

"Five years ago, Azam Khan, Mukhtar Ansari and Atiq Ahmed were ruling the roost. In the Yogi ji rule in five years, these people are playing 'gulli-danda' in jails. In UP, the law is the same, only the rule has changed," the BJP president said, a day before the third phase of polling elsewhere in the state.

"At that time, a bandage of appeasement was tied over the eyes of the king and he used to address these people as 'sahab'. The SP is a party whose half the leaders are contesting (the elections) from jails, and the rest after getting bail," he said.

The BJP national president also attacked the Samajwadi Party for its alleged family-oriented politics.