Summary:
Meerut, Dec 11 (PTI) Claiming that his party’s government in Uttar Pradesh made a record payment to sugarcane farmers, BJP national president J P Nadda attacked the Opposition, saying "Jinnah is theirs and ‘ganna’ is ours".
The BJP leader made this statement more than a month after Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav courted a controversy when he mentioned Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in a speech, along with Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Mahatma Gandhi.
Addressing his party workers here, Nadda said the Yogi Adityanath-led state government made a record payment to sugarcane farmers.
Nadda said the Yogi government paid Rs 1.41 lakh crore to farmers.
The dues of the previous government have also been paid, he said "Sugarcane is ours and Jinnah is theirs.
We will win by contesting on sugarcane and expose their Jinnah mentality," he said referring to the Assembly elections early next year.