Uttar Pradesh Deputy CM’s “Bomb” Swipe at Akhilesh Yadav

TIL Desk/National/Agra/ Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Friday attacked Akhilesh Yadav over his remarks on MV Ganga Vilas cruise launched in Kashi, alleging that the SP chief wants no progress but “factories to make bombs and illegal guns”.

“Akhilesh Yadav does not want youth to get opportunities. He wants youths to open factories of ‘bomb’ making, ‘tamancha’ and ‘katta’ (both country-made weapons). But now there is a defence corridor in the state,” Maurya said. Mr Maurya was in Agra to attend a ‘Gram Chaupal’ in the Bamrauli Katara village.

During his visit, he inaugurated a panchayat ghar and also distributed money in assistance to the workers of the Small House Groups (SHG) and several other beneficiaries of the various schemes of the government. Mr Yadav had on Thursday, when the cruise was launched, alleged that the BJP government wanted to take away local fishermen’s livelihood by turning a religious spot like Kashi into a tourist spot. Mr Maurya lauded the ‘world’s longest river cruise’ and said now foreigners will throng India to have a cruise ride.