BJP should raise development issues not communal: Akhilesh Yadav

MUZAFFARNAGAR: As Uttar Pradesh heads for Assembly elections next year, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today asked BJP to fight the polls with development issues rather than trying to "breach" the communal harmony of the state.

"BJP should compare and compete with the development work of the state government rather than raising the issues which tear the communal fabric of the state," he said during a public meeting on the occasion of 29th death anniversary of former Deputy Chief Minister of the state Chaudhary Narayan Singh here.

Yadav said BJP's efforts to gain political benefit by creating communal tension among people have fallen flat in the recent past.

"BJP tried to gain political benefits by raising the issues like Kairana migration, Mathura and Biswada incidents but got nothing out of them," he said.

He later announced round-the-clock power supply for the people of Muzaffarnagar.