In Jais, Padmavat verses used for polls

Lucknow | Wednesday | 27th March, 2019

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I am proud to have kept Jaisi’s saab’s literature on Rani Padmavati’s heroics in my home. We readily use his verses and quotes form the book in our poll campaigns,” says Nadeem, who served as UP Youth Congress chief and now nurtures Amethi for his party chief Rahul Gandhi. JAIS (AMETHI): Congress worker Nadeem Ashraf Jaisi, 52, and his team are out in the field every morning in Jaisi town of Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi, abundantly quoting from epic poem Padmavat written in the 16th century here.“Vraksh ek laagi dui daara...maata ke rakt pita ke bindu, upne do Turk aur Hindu (A tree has two branches and a child is attached to both his mother and father. It is just a story. The controversy was pointless,” says Mushtaq, a local.While the Congress accuses the BJP of polarising elections here, a significant section of Muslims in Jais are all praise for the Prime Minister Awas Yojana scheme by PM Narendra Modi “I believe PM Narendra Modi will return to power..