Testing Yogi's ability would be suicidal for BJP
Rumours of replacing Chief Minister Yogi in Uttar Pradesh have been in full swing on social media for a few days now. In rumours, everyone has made their own arguments, some have said that the differences between Yogi and Modi are deepening while some said Yogi does not listen to any minister or worker and their style of functioning has become exactly like a dictator. The opposition and the media have cited the death toll across the state during the second wave of corona as the reason, in support of which they have cited long queues in crematoriums and dead bodies flowing into the Ganga, also claiming that this is all when the Uttar Pradesh government has concealed death figures. Some self-styled and vulture journalists have also worked to oxygenate these rumours, which were broadcasting live from the crematorium until a few days ago and analysing corpses flowing into the Ganges using photoshopped pictures .
The opposition also took a dig at the rumours and their workers also participated in the rumour mongering on social media. Nowadays, there are many professional agencies available in respect of social media to spread lies faster, obviously who do such things for money, but most surprisingly, foreign media is also very active in the case of U.P. It is no less surprising that the BJP's IT cell, considered the strongest and most aggressive of all political parties in India, could not succeed in containing these unfortunate rumours and responding appropriately.
Such propaganda against Yogi is not new. Throughout his tenure, anti-national and anti-social forces have been doing such acts against him, which in itself makes it clear that they have properly evaluated Yogi's strength better than the BJP.
Yogi has done many such things including not allowing communal riots in the state, strict handling of the CAA movement, recovery from those who damage public property, displaying photos of wanted criminals at intersections, putting goons and mafias in the jails and bringing the law and order of the state to that point for which the people of the state had been longing for many decades.
Very few people would know that there have been large-scale conspiracies in the state to spread ethnic hatred, incite communal riots, spoil law and order in the name of atrocities on women in order to hurt Yogi's image. In the wake of the unfortunate incident in Hathras, several organizations, including PFI, had also hatched a major conspiracy for which a large amount of money was collected so that the entire state could be wrapped up in ethnic and communal violence. In this mission, almost all opposition parties, including the Congress, also tried to bake political bread and spoil the situation. Hate posters were made, false news was bombarded through fake accounts on social media, but their efforts did not succeed.
A fake audio clip recently went viral on social media to defame Yogi stating that tweets in favour of Yogi will fetch ₹2 per tweet. This fake audio clip was tweeted by a retired IAS officer in the name of Yogi Tool Kit. Through his tweets, The Wire journalist Rohani Singh also spread propaganda against Yogi. Though the cyber police of Uttar Pradesh quickly busted the fraud and arrested the accused , by that time the propaganda had already taken place .
In Uttar Pradesh, Yogi launched an intensive campaign against goons and mafias, which has led to the notorious mafia either behind bars or hiding in other states and some have been killed by the police in encounters. Buildings constructed by these mafias on illegal occupation of government land were demolished and government land worth thousands of crores of rupees was vacated. Recently, the entire country saw and heard the story of Mukhtar Ansari's return from Punjab to Uttar Pradesh, which the Punjab government owing to vested interests was deliberately not sending him to Uttar Pradesh, and for this the Uttar Pradesh government had to approach the Supreme Court, but the Yogi government succumbed to the notorious mafia in U.P. jail. Such actions of the Uttar Pradesh government have impressed the people of the state the most.
When Vikas Dubey, the notorious criminal of Kanpur's Vikru case in which eight policemen, including a deputy superintendent, were killed, was killed by the police in an encounter, the rumour gang immediately became active and tried to spread ethnic hatred again. Rumours were spread on social media and other media that Yogi was Thakur and was fiercely anti-Brahmin, so Brahmins were being killed. A sannyasi (monk) is above caste classification and worldliness and I personally know Yogi Adityanath that he is an eternal Hinduist, which he should be, but he has no feeling of hatred for a particular caste or religion. Such low-level blames to a sannyasi who has not gone to The AIIMS , Delhi for his father 's last darshan and has not attended his funeral after his death, owing to his official responsibilities towards the people of the state during Corona pandemic.
As far as the corona pandemic is concerned, Yogi has set an example of being a proactive chief minister all over the country. When chief ministers of most states were confined to social media and TV briefings, he made intensive visits to every district of the state, went to hospitals, and took effective steps. When the Delhi government had packed migrant labourers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in DTC buses and released them at the Uttar Pradesh border, Yogi made proper arrangements for the accommodation of these thousands of migrant labourers and made all arrangements to reach their destination. It also had a large number of migrant labourers from Bihar. Not only that, Yogi also gave a befitting reply to Priyanka Vadra’s bus scam and exposed the Congress' lie to the public. Arrangements for migrant labourers who returned from Delhi, Mumbai and elsewhere in large numbers was very challenging for any government, which the Yogi government handled very efficiently. In the first and second wave of Corona, the Management of the Yogi government has also been highly praised by the World Health Organization and Prime Minister Modi has been patting Yogi on his back from time to time on his corona management.
Uttar Pradesh, with a population of about 250 million, is larger than all countries except 4, in the world and despite limited health infrastructure, the number and mortality rate of infected people in the state has been much better than most states and most countries in the world. It is also worth noting here that one and a half years of Yogi's 4-year tenure so far were spent only in managing the corona pandemic. Even after all this, Uttar Pradesh worked fast on the path of economic development and with the addition of the new airports, became the state having the highest number of functioning airports in the country. Several important projects are also going on in the roads in the state, some of which have been completed and some are poised to be completed expeditiously. These include Purvanchal Expressway, Ganga Expressway, Bundelkhand Expressway, Gorakhpur Link Expressway, Ballia Link Expressway among others. Many of the state's ambitious projects are underway in Ayodhya, Chitrakoot, Mathura and Kashi, which will promote tourism as well as promote eternal culture and increase economic activities. The work of the film city in Noida is also progressing very fast . Due to many such industrial activities, Uttar Pradesh has recovered from the status of a sick state and in 2020-21 it has become the third largest nominal GDP state (more than 17 lakh crore) after Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.
Rumours of a change in the organisation and government in the Uttar Pradesh BJP were further reinforced when state In-charge radha mohan singh, national general secretary organisation BL Santosh visited Lucknow after BJP national president JP Nadda, had a meeting of national general secretaries in Delhi. The visit of Sarkaryavah of RSS Dattatreya Hosbale to Lucknow is also being linked to the same speculation. Radha Mohan Singh even met Governor Anandiben and Assembly Speaker Shri Hriday Narayan Dixit, which further heated up the speculation market. Though Radha Mohan Singh described the meetings as a courtesy call and described the purpose of his visit as related to the preparations for the 2022 assembly elections , even a general political figure would guess that something was going on. Otherwise why was there a need to meet the Governor and the Speaker of the Assembly ? What these meetings might relate to the 2022 assembly elections is still an abuzz puzzle ?
Notwithstanding anything in this regard, after the clarifications given by these leaders, the people should be convinced that the BJP chief minister in Uttar Pradesh is not going to change. The change at the ministerial level does not make much difference to the people.
In any case, the BJP is the largest cadre political party in the world and it must know that Uttar Pradesh has 80 Lok Sabha seats and the path to form a government at the Centre goes through Uttar Pradesh, but the CENTRAL LEADERSHIP of the BJP must understand that the performance in panchayat elections is not a very important sign for any political party for the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections. If it were so important, how did the BJP get so much success in 2017?
Just a few months ago, an opinion poll conducted by India Today revealed that no BJP or opposition leader in the state stays far and wide against Yogi's popularity. Therefore, the BJP must also keep in mind that even a small mistake made in Uttar Pradesh can prove to be very disastrous for the party.
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- Shive Mishra
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