‘It’s A for ‘apraadh’,C for corruption,’ says Amit

Hardoi (UP): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday targeted the Samajwadi Party, alleging that the opposition party’s lexicon starts with ‘Apraadh’ (crime), ‘Bhaai- Bhatijavaad’ (nepotism) and ‘Corruption’.

Addressing a rally here, the BJP leader also alleged that the SP, BSP and the Congress made numerous efforts to stop the construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya and asserted that they “will not succeed even if they unleash their full force”. He took a swipe at the SP over the income tax raids against a Kanpurbased perfume trader allegedly linked to it. “The A, B, C, D of Samajwadi Party is itself all wrong where ‘A’ is for ‘Apraadh aur Aatank’ (crime and terrorism), ‘B’ is for ‘Bhaai-Bhatijaavaad’ (nepotism), ‘C’ for ‘Corruption’ aur ‘D’ means ‘Dangaa’ (riots). The Bharatiya Janata Party has wiped out this A, B, C,D,” the former BJP president said at the Jan Vishvas Yatra here.

Hardoi has been a stronghold of the Samajwadi Party and the family of Naresh Chandra Agarwal, who joined the BJP in 2018.

In multiple raids by the IT department and the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs, were seized from perfume trader Peeyush Jain’saround Rs 257 crore in cash, 25 kg of gold and 250 kg of silver house in Kanpur as well as from his house and factory in Kannauj.

The Finance Ministry on Monday said it was the “biggest ever seizure of cash” by an enforcement agency. BJP leaders have sought to link the perfume trader with the SP claiming he had launched the ‘Samajwadi Attar (perfume)’ with Yadav’s support recently. —(PTI)