Etawah: BJP Chief JP Nadda at ‘Prabhavi Matdata Sammelan’ states that they had fulfilled their promise of saving Muslim women from getting exploited. During his address, he also compared voting with marriage.
Addressing the ‘Prabhavi Matdata Sammelan’ in Etawah, and considering a stronghold of the opposition Samajwadi Party, Nadda urged the voters to check on the records of political parties before they cast their vote for any political party. He compared casting votes with marriage ceremonies.
Amid this unique comparison, he said, “Remember, people check about the background of a family before deciding whether they can enter into a relationship with it. Similarly, one should also undertake background checks of political parties, see whether they delivered on their poll promises in the past before casting their vote.”
He tried to remind the audience that how the BJP kept its pre-poll promise on abolishing the instant triple talaq divorce law and on Ram temple in Ayodhya.
Giving a reminder to voters, he said, “We had promised to save Muslim women from getting exploited and we fulfilled it. We committed to the Ayodhya temple and that too is being fulfilled. Unlike those who apply ’tilak’ only during elections, we have always delivered on our promises,” Nadda said, pitching the BJP as the party that valued its commitment.
Nearly all the BJP leaders are flagging temple in their speeches, Nadda pitching on Muslim women gained attention as it coincided with a directive chief minister Yogi Adityanath had earlier given to BJP’s women wing in UP to connect with such Muslim women who benefitted due to BJP’s decision to scrap the instant divorce law.
At a public meeting in Mahoba, the triple talaq was first flagged by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Bundelkhand in 2016, just ahead of the 2017 UP polls and in July 2019, the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill became law, providing for punishment, including a jail term, for the husband accused of instantly divorcing his wife.
“Akhilesh Ji merely talks about development while engaging in appeasement. The BJP opposes appeasement but works for all. We said we would act against criminals and you must have seen that it was done in UP,” he said.
“Do you remember how bad things were before 2017, when our daughters were unable to go to school? No one knew if they would return home safe. Today, the scenario under BJP government has changed drastically,” Nadda said.
This line is being taken by most BJP leaders in west UP, from where the seven-phased UP polls start from February 10. The BJP has so far declared 295 candidates in UP, 37 of them women. Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had first launched a women-centric poll campaign themed ‘ladki hoon, lad Sakti Hoon (I am a woman, will accept any challenge)’ but since then the BJP has stepped up the ante, pitching itself as a party which women trust.
BJP leader and union minister for information and broadcasting Anurag Thakur had recently campaigned in Lucknow with the face of the Congress’ ‘ladki hoon’ campaign – Priyanka Maurya, Aparna Yadav, the sister-in-law of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and former Congress lawmaker Aditi Singh – to make a point about BJP being the party women trust.
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