BJP will make UP caste politics free if voted to power: Nitin Gadkari

Asserting that caste-based politics is ruining the country, BJP president Nitin Gadkari today promised to free Uttar Pradesh from goonda raj and caste politics if his party is voted to power in the state.

"The politicians playing caste politics are ruining the country. They are making the poor turn poorer and taking the unemployed on a different path," Gadkari said at a gathering at the 2nd Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Quiz Competition at BJP's Delhi unit office here.

Gadkari said, "caste-based politics is the worst thing," while promising to show the nation and Uttar Pradesh a new future.

"We can change the future of the nation...the future of Uttar Pradesh. We will free the state of goonda raj and caste politics. We have prepared a plan for Uttar Pradesh. We will provide 50 lakh new employment opportunities for the youth in the state. I don't talk about jobs, but talk about employment," he said.

Gadkari said the main reason for the poverty and unemployment in the country was the wrong economic policies and corruption.

The BJP President also charged Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati of playing caste-based politics, and said she had spent Rs 10,000 crore on making her own statues even as her people did not have money to buy food.