With a constant drop in the mercury, the political heat in the state of Uttar Pradesh is rising with every passing day ahead of polls as political leaders have started the campaign for their respective political parties with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi addressing people of Uttar Pradesh at different venues.
The two leaders attacked each other at different platform over the issue of note ban. In Kanpur, PM Modi attacked opposition parties for not allowing Parliament to function in the winter session and accused them of scuttling crucial debate on holding simultaneous national and state elections and on the funding of political parties. The Opposition, he said, was defending the corrupt by opposing the ban on 500 and 1000 rupee notes aimed at eliminating black money.
नरेंद्र मोदी जी चाहते हैं कि आपकी खून-पसीने की कमाई का पैसा बैंक में रहे और इससे वो अमीरों का कर्ज माफ करे सकें
— Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) December 19, 2016
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Speaking less than an hour later in Jaunpur, about 300 km away, Rahul Gandhi alleged that the notes ban had punished the poor with the cash crunch that has followed and rewarded the rich.
“PM Modi has taken the blood of 99% of the people without their permission,” the Congress leader said.
PM Modi singled the Congress out for attack in speech on Monday, accusing it if having had no accountability to the people in the decades that it ruled the country. His government, he said, had accounted for every action in its two and a half years of rule.
मोदी जी नोटबंदी से आपने कालेधन पर सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक नहीं, बल्कि देश के गरीबों पर फॉयर बॉंबिंग की है
— Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) December 19, 2016
The BJP and the Congress are placed in a four-corner contest in the state, pitted also against regional heavyweights, the ruling Samajwadi Party and Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party. The SP has said a partnership with the Congress would mean winning over 300 of UP’s 403 seats together.
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