Amit Shah asks Nishads to defeat SP, BSP in UP polls

Lucknow : Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday asked the Nishad community in Uttar Pradesh to ensure defeat for the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party and also make sure that the Congress does not open its account in the upcoming Assembly elections scheduled early next year.
“What have these parties done for you? Did they give you gas connection, water facilities and health cards? They ruled the state for years but did nothing for the backward and weaker sections of the society. They only worked for the welfare of their own families,” Shah said while addressing the joint BJP-Nishad Party ‘Sarkar Banao, Adhikar Pao’ rally in Lucknow.
The rally was the first event after the BJP announced its alliance with the Nishad Party.
Shah said that people gave majority to the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation of the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
He said that while other parties worked in self-interest, Modi worked for all with his concept of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas’.
He said that for the Nishad community, Modi had set up a separate fisheries ministry that has a budget of Rs 3,000 crore.