Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath alleged on Friday that the Congress in its election manifesto has promised Muslims that the party, if voted to power, would give them a free hand in cow slaughter in the country. Addressing a rally in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal Lok Sabha constituency, the CM said, “In besharmon ko dekho ye kaise Bharat ki aastha ke saath khilwad kar rahe hain. Jis gaay ko hum maata kehte hai aur pooja karte hai, usse ye kasaiyon ko denge katne ke liye. Kya Hindustan ise sweekar karega? (see how these shameless people are trying to play with the religious sentiments of people of Bharat. They will hand over the cow which we worship and treat like mother to butchers for slaughter. Will India accept this?).” Adityanath said that besides promising inheritance tax, the Congress has added cow slaughter to its manifesto. “I have come to know that the brother and sister (Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi) are now preparing to go for a darshan of Ram Lalla in Ayodhya. These are the same people who used to question the existence of Lord Ram earlier. And when the Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for the construction of the Ram Temple, now they are saying that Ram is everywhere. Never trust these people,” he said. While the grandmother (Indira Gandhi) promised poverty alleviation in India in the 1970s, her grandson is also speaking the same language after nearly 50 years, he added. “He (Rahul Gandhi) said they will go for a survey of the economic status of people. And if someone has four rooms in their house with four members, he said his party would take the two rooms in government possession to rehabilitate the needy people there,” the CM claimed. “They are also talking about cash and jewellery of our women even as the Supreme Court clearly mentioned that these belongings are their property. They will usurp women's jewellery and distribute it among Bangladeshi infiltrators, especially the Rohingya,” he alleged. The Congress government at the Centre (before 2014), he alleged, tried to bring down reservation for OBCs (other backward classes), SCs(scheduled castes) and STs (scheduled tribes) in government jobs. “Through the Justice Rangnathan Commission they tried to ensure 6% reservation for Muslims in jobs by cutting the quota of OBCs and tried to do the same through the Sachar Committee by making a dent into the SC and ST quota” he said. Taking a jibe at Congress' Amroha candidate and MP Danish Ali, without naming him, the CM said, “Those who live in this country are hesitant to chant Vande Mataram in Parliament. Should our vote go to such venomous people who have no regard for the country? They are trying to engineer another conspiracy to divide the country through your vote. Beware of them.”
