Varanasi: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) will repeat its 2014 Lok Sabha electoral success and form a majority government in Uttar Pradesh.
Jaitley, while addressing a ‘Varanasi Vyapari Sammelan’ (traders meet) in Parliamentary constituency of Prime minster Narendra Modi, hailed the Central government’s demonetisation policy and said the move had won the confidence of many people.
The Finance Minister said that “The decision of demonetisation scheme was in the best interest of the countrymen and those living in rural areas have voted in favour of BJP after currency ban step which is the for the central government.
He added our party boldly took the stand on demonetisation, which will make a positive impact on the economy of the country.”
Jaitely further said that “The world has accepted that India’s economy is the fastest growing economy.”
The senior BJP leader said while commenting on the crucial Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, “BJP is going to form the next government in Uttar Pradesh with full majority like it did at the Centre after the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.”
He also targeted at the opposition parties for aiming BJP for not having a face of the chief ministerial for the UP state assembly elections.
He added that the electorate had chosen Narendra Modi, long before he was declared the Prime Minister nominee of BJP during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
He said history will be repeated in UP after the assembly polls and reminded that “After 1984, it was for the first time that a political party got a clear majority in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.”
Jaitley also targeted at Congress party and said the party was reduced to winning only 44 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls as it “only worked for its personal benefit, not for the nation.”
He also slammed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav for “distributing tickets to criminal candidates, paving way for ‘Goondaraj’ (hooliganism) and doing caste-based politics.”
He added, “Akhilesh boasts of one expressway in the state, while Union Minister Nitin Gadkari is constructing 255 highways at half the rate of the tender given by the UP government for its expressway.”
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