Farmers Movement Archive

UP CM’s performance is a ticket to victory: Zafar Islam

LUCKNOW: The newly lected Rajya Sabha member of the BJP Syed Zafar Islam on Thursday claimed that the performance of the Yogi government would guarantee victory of the BJP in byelections to all the seven Assembly seats in the state. The BJP MP, who is also national spokesman of the party, was talking to TOI on Thursday after his extensive tour of the eastern and western UP to campaign for party candidates and propagating the party line on the recently introduced farm laws. The young BJP MP claimed that during his tour of the state, he found a forceful support for Yogi Adityanath, mainly for steps being taken by him to improve the law and order and his anti-corruption crusade. Besides, everyone is praising the CM for waging a decisive battle against the novel coronavirus pandemic, he further added. In the byelections, all BJP candidates will emerge winners thanks to the CM’s performance, Zafar said, adding that welfare schemes launched by the Union government are also enhancing the BJP’s credibility among the poor. On the farm laws the BJP MP said that people have now realised that Congress was trying to create confusion over the issue. The Central government has already made it clear that farmers’ interest would be protected and no corporate house would be able to gobble up their land, he added. “It is ironic that policies introduced by the Congress governments through recommendations of the finance commission in 2007 are now being opposed by the same party to misguide the people,” said Zafar. He said that it was this reason that the so-called farmers’ protests are now limited only to Congress-ruled Punjab state.

The Times of India

2020-10-23

Lucknow