JOIN US'Farq Saaf Hai' war goes beyond social media in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh
The ongoing war of words in campaigning in the forthcoming assembly polls between the BJP and the Samajwadi Party (SP) has moved to the media with both the rivals coming out with advertisements in the newspapers claiming that Uttar Pradesh developed more under their regimes.
It all started when the BJP put out posters and hoardings on the busy thoroughfares and streets of the state capital comparing the regimes of the SP before 2017 and the BJP after the saffron party assumed power following 2017 assembly polls. The BJP hoardings claimed that the state was virtually under mafia rule during SP president Akhilesh Yadav's government.
SP came out with huge advertisements in the newspapers in which it compared the SP and BJP governments and claimed that the state had progressed more during the former's rule.
The SP ads also carried pictures of burning bodies at the crematoriums in Lucknow during the second wave of Covid 19 and also late night cremation of the body of the Hathras rape victim, who was murdered thereafter to corner the BJP government. ''Fark Saaf Hai...22 mein BJP saaf hai'' (the difference is clear...BJP will be wiped out in 2022,'' the ad said.
In reply the BJP also put out advertisements in the newspapers on Friday and showcased its government's achievements during its tenure. The ads carried pix of expressways and claimed that UP had developed rapidly during the BJP regime.
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BJP has practically flooded the cities and towns with its hoardings and posters listing the achievements of the state and central governments. ''The state grows under a double engine government,'' one of the posters said.
Barely a few days back Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal had while addressing a public meeting here said that there were more than two thousand hoardings of UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath in Delhi alone.
The ad war is only expected to intensify as the polls will draw closer.
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