Muzaffarnagar: 'Kairana migration' will not be the main issue in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election which the party will contest on the development plank, Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu has said.
"Kairana migration would not be a main issue in UP polls. It is a law and order problem. The party would contest the election on the development plank," he said last evening.
The Union Urban Development Minister accused Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party of playing caste politics.
A BJP MP has alleged that many Hindu families were forced to leave Kairana town in western Uttar Pradesh allegedly due to threat from a particular community.
Attacking the ruling Samajwadi Party government over recent incidents in Mathura and Kairana, BJP president Amit Shah has said the prevailing "atmosphere of violence" in the state is a matter of serious concern."
"The present Samajwadi Party government each day is expressing its helplessness in dealing with these situations," Mr Shah said on June 12 while citing recent clashes in Mathura.
Mr Naidu said the BJP is the only party to nominate Muslim leaders (Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and MJ Akbar) for Rajya Sabha elections earlier this month.
"No political party has given a single seat to Muslims out of 57 RS vacancies," he said after attending a private function in the city.
Mr Naqvi won from Jharkhand, while Mr Akbar from Madhya Pradesh.
Thirty of the 57 seats in the biennial elections were decided without contest.
"Kairana migration would not be a main issue in UP polls. It is a law and order problem. The party would contest the election on the development plank," he said last evening.
The Union Urban Development Minister accused Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party of playing caste politics.
Attacking the ruling Samajwadi Party government over recent incidents in Mathura and Kairana, BJP president Amit Shah has said the prevailing "atmosphere of violence" in the state is a matter of serious concern."
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Mr Naidu said the BJP is the only party to nominate Muslim leaders (Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and MJ Akbar) for Rajya Sabha elections earlier this month.
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Mr Naqvi won from Jharkhand, while Mr Akbar from Madhya Pradesh.
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