DC Debate: In UP-Polarise or perish?

BJP, SP are polarising the issue Ajay Maken There have been contradictory statements on behalf of the BJP, both in terms of numbers and facts, about the Mathura and Kairana incidents. After having failed to deliver on key promises, like curbing corruption, creating large-scale employment and an effective check on rising prices, the BJP is all set to play communal card for the coming Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh. Ajay Maken is former Union minister and the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president SP’s politics of minority appeasement Vijender Gupta As the Narendra Modi government completed two years in office, the Indian economy registered a growth rate of 7.9 per cent, inflation is down to five per cent, current account deficit has fallen within one per cent of GDP and the rupee has remained stable against the dollar. Amidst such successful record of governance, it is not surprising that the united Opposition is once again raising the bogey of communal polarisation as the BJP’s agenda in the Uttar Pradesh election. While people in UP are talking about development and good governance, it is sad to see landgrab incidents in Mathura and the Hindu exodus in Kairana, indicating a total lack of governance by the SP.