Summary:
Noida, Jan 23 (PTI) Rival parties, including Congress, Samajwadi Party, and Bahujan Samaj Party, will not be able to get 100 seats together in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh polls, BJP leader Dinesh Sharma on Sunday said.
Sharma, the deputy chief minister of UP, said the BJP is fighting the election on development issue and hit out at the opposition parties for encouraging criminal elements, communalism in state"s politics.
“The elimination of regionalism, family politics and mafia-rule is the objective of the BJP, which fights polls on agendas of development,” he told reporters while campaigning for party"s Tejpal Nagar in Dadri.
“I feel western Uttar Pradesh will break its own previous record by supporting the BJP with more votes this time,” he said.
On Priyanka Gandhi Vadra denying she is Congress" CM candidate, Sharma said he need not say much about it as TV surveys are forecasting a mere 3-7 seats for her party.
“Their combined figures in the upcoming polls will not reach three-digit,” the deputy CM said predicting opposition parties tally.