Lucknow, Apr 15 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Tuesday said the Congress has got itself punctured by doing the politics of Muslim appeasement.

In a post in Hindi on microblogging site X, Maurya said, “The history of politics is witness to the Congress getting itself punctured by doing the politics of Muslim appeasement for decades. Despite this bitter truth, it is still far away from realising the ground reality. The truth is also that it has no other way except to crawl on the crutches of regional parties.” “Despite all this, its arrogance is such that it thinks the burden of the country is on it. Despite being the opposition, it behaves like the ruling party. Congress, which believes in ‘monarchy’ under the Gandhi family’s shadow instead of democracy, has never cared about the Constitution,” Maurya wrote.

In an apparent attack on Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, the deputy chief minister wrote, “The only change in Congress’ history is that now it has given up Gandhiji’s ‘khadi’ and started using T-shirts.” Congress has limited impact on the public because even after becoming a Member of Parliament five times “Rahul Gandhi means impossible”, he wrote.

“On the other hand, Prime Minister Narendra Modi means ‘possible’. Under his leadership BJP is changing the picture of the country, whereas Congress only wants to see the Muslim community punctured,” Maurya wrote.

In a separate post attacking Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav, the deputy chief minister wrote, “Seeing that the Samajwadi Party is sure to be wiped out in 2027, Akhilesh Yadav is completely upset. Now he is giving and getting others to give irresponsible statements that divide the society and break the social fabric. But this policy will harm the Samajwadi Party more than it benefits it.” “The historic public support received on Babasaheb Ambedkar’s birth anniversary has upset Samajwadi Party’s digestion. The balloon of their fake PDA (Pichre, Dalit, Alpashankak) has also burst. The party’s formula ‘SP with some, development of family and goons’ is enough to make Samajwadi Party a ‘Samaaptwaadi Party’. Samajwadi Party and the Saifai family will never accept the development of the poor, backward and Dalits,” Maurya wrote.

He added that BJP is the present and the future, and it “will repeat 2017 in 2027”. PTI NAV RUK RUK