Daijiworld Media Network - Saharanpur

Saharanpur, May 8: Yogi Adityanath on Thursday indicated that the Bharatiya Janata Party would enter the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections with nationalism, Hindutva and development as the core themes of its campaign strategy.

Addressing a public gathering in Deoband in Saharanpur district, where the renowned Darul Uloom Deoband is located, the chief minister said recent Assembly election results in West Bengal, Puducherry and Assam showed that people no longer supported “caste politics and appeasement”.

“The recent polls in some states are proof that people will remove from power those parties that work against Indian culture, national identity and social unity,” Adityanath said.

The chief minister claimed that the “fatwa culture” in Uttar Pradesh ended after the BJP came to power in the state in 2017.

Referring to Deoband, he alleged that earlier religious decrees used to dictate what people should wear or eat, affecting personal freedom.

“We ended this culture,” he said.

Adityanath also asserted that the state government would not tolerate any insult to cultural symbols and warned of strict action against those involved in such acts.

The BJP leader further claimed that Saharanpur had witnessed no communal riots since the party formed the government in Uttar Pradesh.

“UP is now riot-free and mafia-free,” he remarked.

Earlier in the day, the chief minister inaugurated and laid foundation stones for several development projects worth crores of rupees in the district.