The CM issued the directives to all his ministers for the night halt at Dalit-dominated villages on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to BJP ministers and leaders to assuage feelings of Dalits.
Playing aggressive Dalit card ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has issued directives to all his ministers to spend at least a night in Dalit-dominated villages of Uttar Pradesh.
On a visit to Pratapgarh, Yogi Adityanath himself spent a night in a Dalit village to know their grievances and ensure that benefits of all central and state government schemes are reaching to the community members, who are annoyed with the BJP following the Supreme Court order diluting the SC/ST Act.
Large-scale violence during Bharat Bandh and action against a large number of Dalit youth by the Yogi government further alienated them from the BJP. A large number of Dalit youth had voted in favour of the BJP during 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
The CM issued the directives to all his ministers for the night halt at Dalit-dominated villages on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to BJP ministers and leaders to assuage feelings of Dalits.
A similar call was given by Rahul Gandhi before 2014 Lok Sabha polls to all UPCC leaders to spend nights at Dalit-dominated villages. Rahul had himself spent a night at a Dalit village in Bundelkhand. But the party had failed to get any political benefit from the gimmick.
The CM's directive is also aimed at countering the challenge thrown by the BSP and Samajwadi Party deciding to form an alliance to take on the BJP in 2019 Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh.
Ironically, both the parties are fighting against each other in Karnataka Assemby polls. The BSP Supremo Mayawati has already entered into an alliance with the Janata Dal (S) while SP president Akhilesh Yadav will be campaigning to seek votes for the Congress candidates.
The State Medical Education Minister Ashutosh Tandon has already spent a night at a Dalit-dominated village in Ambedkar Nagar. He is spending another night at a dalit-dominated village in Sant Kabir Nagar on Monday.
Another minister Swami Prasad Yadav also followed the suit spending a night in a Dalit-dominated village in Etawah, home town of SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav. All ministers have been directed to cover at least two districts and cover as many villages as possible to make party's inroads into rural pockets.
Meanwhile, the CM held a high-level meeting and issued a stern warning to bureaucrats for delay in implementation of its flagship projects. The CM was particularly annoyed with slow pace of work in making entire state open defecation free (ODF) by October this year, Purvanchal Expressway work on which was supposed to be started in December last year and delay in starting construction of AIIMS at Gorakhpur even after aqcquisition of land and release of funds.
During the meeting, he said that delay would deprive the people of reaping benefits attached with the development projects and welfare schemes. "Any laxity and further delay will not be tolerated now. Either execute and complete undertaken projects in time or face action," he told senior bureaucrats.
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