Maharajganj/Ballia (UP), Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday criticized the Samajwadi Party over "power shortage" during his tenure in Uttar Pradesh and said the supply was uninterrupted during Ramzan, but not on Janmashtami.

Addressing election rallies in the state, Shah said this Lok Sabha election presents a choice between those who built the Ram temple and those who opened fire on Ram devotees.

The Home Minister addressed four rallies - first in Maharajganj, then in Deoria Ballia and Robertsganj - campaigning for the BJP and NDA candidates who are in the fray in the last and seventh phase of the Lok Sabha elections on June 1. In his rally in Ballia Speaking - where the BJP denied ticket to incumbent M Virendra Singh Mast in favor of former prime minister Chandra Shekhar's relative Neeraj Shekhar - Shah launched a sweeping attack against the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party and alleged that the mafia Used to bother. People during his reign.

Shah said, “When BJP came to power, Yogi Adityanath was made the Chief Minister and he cured the mafias.,

He said that Uttar Pradesh also faced power crisis during the SP government. “There was electricity supply only for three-four hours. There was uninterrupted supply during Ramzan, but not on Janmashtami. (Puri used to come in Ramzan, but "It did not come on the day of Janmashtami. After BJP came to power, our Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ensured 18-hour power supply," she said.At his election rally in Deoria in support of BJP candidate Shashank Mann Tripathi, Shah accused the opposition of stopping the construction of the Ram temple for more than 70 years and said the temple could be built only because of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Referring to the firing on kar sevaks in 1990, he said, "This election is between those who built the Ram temple and those who opened fire on Ram devotees." When late Mulayam Singh Yadav was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Also in his Maharajganj rally, Shah took a dig at India Bloc allies Samajwad Party and Congress, saying they had already blamed electronic voting machines for their defeat in the Lok Sabha elections. Have decided.

He said, “Vote counting is on June 4.In the afternoon both the 'princes' (Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav) will hold a press conference and say that we lost the elections because the EVMs were faulty."

Speaking at a rally in support of party candidate Pankaj Choudhary, he said, "Modi has crossed 310 seats in five rounds of voting. Rahul Baba, you will not get even 40 seats and the other 'Prince' (Akhilesh Yadav) will get only four seats. " .In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Congress won 52 seats, while Samajwad Party (SP) got only five seats.

Shah said, the opposition does not have any PM candidate and they say they will have five PMs in five years."This is not a general store but a country of 130 crore people. Can such a PM work?"

Taking a dig at the opposition, he said Congress leaders say Pakistan has a nuclear bomb but the BJP is "not afraid of the nuclear bomb". He said, "Pakistan occupied Kashmir is and will remain a part of India. And we will Will take it back.”

Referring to the Sahara 'scam', Shah claimed that it happened when the parties which are currently in opposition were in power.He said, "Akhilesh Yadav, the scam happened in your government! Modi ji started the process of refund to the customers affected by the Sahara 'scam'."

Sahara group companies were accused of circumventing rules with Ponzi schemes, a charge the group has denied. The senior BJP leader also accused previous governments of closing sugar mills and promised that if the BJP If voted to power again, a new mega sugar mill will be constructed in Maharajganj.

At the Deoria rally, Shah claimed that large-scale terrorist attacks took place during the Congress government. “When Narendra Modi came to power, we did surgical strikes and air strikes and hit Pakistan in its own backyard and ended terrorism.,

He accused the opposition parties of trying to end reservations for SC/ST/OBC to please their vote bank. "I want to give 'Modi Guarantee' as long as there is even a single BJP MP in Parliament. Till then no one can touch SC/ST and OBC reservation. These people have reduced the reservation of backward classes for the sake of appeasement politics." He said.

He praised Adityanat for focusing on cleanliness and decisive action against mafias."Yogi ji has eliminated mosquitoes in his 'style' through cleanliness drive and apology."

In his Robertsganj rally, Shah alleged that in 1989, the SP government had ordered firing on tribals protesting against a cement factory there. "Make Modi the Prime Minister and all the tribals will get forest rights pattas," he said. People associated with SP have taken away the rights of tribals by doing illegal mining.

He said, "Modi has reserved a part of the minerals extracted from here for the tribals by creating a District Mineral Fund. BJP has also completed the Kanhar Project and has supplied water to the fields of the tribals.""This entire area is on the border of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. It was influenced by Naxalism. Modi government has ended Naxalism. Six-seven years ago, it was very difficult to get drinking water in Mirzapur and Sonbhadra. BJP is going to complete the work of providing tap water to every home in three years.”