Lucknow: Launching a sharp attack on the Samajwadi Party, chief minister Yogi Adityanath said that the public has punctured the SP’s bicycle, because if it runs, it will cause riots and impose curfews and pose threat to the security of daughters and traders.Blaming Congress’s “lust for power” for the Partition, he claimed that had the party leadership taken a firm stand, Jinnah would have died, and the country’s division could have been avoided.Speaking at a gathering after distributing citizenship certificates to more than 2,500 families displaced from erstwhile East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and launching development projects worth around Rs 600 crore in Pilibhit, Yogi said: “Pakistan and later Bangladesh came into existence because of the sins of the Congress. It was not inevitable. Pakistan was created because the Congress leadership had lust for power.”He said lakhs of Hindus were massacred and forced to leave their ancestral land during Partition.“Today is a special day, because nearly 56 years ago, the Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and Jain families which came to India after being persecuted from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) are getting the right to rehabilitation and Indian citizenship in Pilibhit, in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision,” Yogi said.“They (SP-Congress) wanted power at the cost of massacres. It was only under the double-engine govt that the Citizenship Amendment Act was enacted to provide Indian citizenship to persecuted people displaced from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan,” he saidAttacking SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, Adityanath said, “Whenever that bicycle ran, it brought riots, unrest, curfews, hooliganism, insecurity for women, loot of traders and encroachment on the land of the poor and public property,” he said.
