#WATCH: BJP President Amit Shah in Chauri Chaura asks people of Uttar Pradesh to get rid of 'KASAB' and what he means by it. pic.twitter.com/BZz3tYFGp5



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They will ask your religion & caste first, if that doesn't seem favourable to them, they won't give you laptop: Amit Shah in Chauri Chaura pic.twitter.com/zSOVBahTNV



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NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah on Wednesday used the name of 26/11 attacker to refer to the opposition and urged the people of Uttar Pradesh to free the state from " KASAB "."By KASAB, I mean Congress, Samajwadi and BSP. Until and unless Kasab is laid to rest, development and prosperity will continue to elude the state," Amit Shah explained as he unleashed another scathing attack on the opposition in the state."In this election, people of UP should get rid of Kasab. I say it again, people of UP should get rid of Kasab," Shah said while addressing an election rally in Gorakhpur's Chauri Chaura.He also claimed that SP gave laptops based on people's caste and religion.The BJP President exuded confidence that the party would storm to power in Uttar Pradesh with two-thirds majority."Voters of the state are fed up with misrule under successive SP and BSP governments, which lasted for nearly 14 years, and they are desperately seeking a change," he said.Taking a jibe at UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, he said, "Akhilesh says 'kaam boltaa hai (performance speaks), but no work appears to have been done so far. But, the state has emerged as number one in terms of crime against women, rape, loot and hooliganism."Shah claimed that SP already knew it was fighting a losing battle in the UP polls, and hence it went for a pre-poll alliance with the Congress."If the state government had done something concrete and was confident about its performance, there would have been no need for alliance (with Congress)," he said.He also termed Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh as two princes -- one giving tough times to his mother and the other to his father. And the voters of UP are feeling troubled by both of them, Shah added.The high voltage campaigning for the Uttar Pradesh election has been marked by barbs, witty acronyms and offensive personal jibes.Hitting out at the opposition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his campaign referred to them as "SCAM" "SCAM stands for SP, Congress, Akhilesh and Mayawati," Modi said in his election rally in Meerut as he appealed to the voters to get rid of them.Reacting to PM's jibe, Rahul and Akhilesh espoused a different meaning of SCAM.Akhilesh redefined Modi's "SCAM" as 'Save Country from Amit Shah and Modi' while Rahul said defined SCAM as Seva (S), Courage (C), Ability (A), Modesty (M); and added that PM Modi was far from it.The PM also termed BSP as "Behenji Sampatti Party" , to which Mayawati retorted instantly, saying the initials of Narendra Damodardas Modi stood for "Negative Dalit Man"."He (Modi) is anti-dalit...this negative dalit man does not like that common people give small contributions in running the BSP movement which is also run through donations," an irked Mayawati said.Mayawati on Wednesday again mocked Modi-led party saying that "BJP is now also denoted as Bhartiya Jumla Party by many in the country.""BJP is now referred as Bhartiya Jumla Party not only in Uttar Pradesh but also outside the state," the BSP leader said.The Prime Minister, in one of the rallies, sought to suggest that the SP government had indulged in discriminatory supply of electricity on the basis of religion.Reacting to this, Akhilesh asked Modi to swear by 'Ganga Maiyya' (mother Ganga) if any discrimination had been meted out to his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi.Amid the verbal free-for-all, Akhilesh also appeared to target Modi by making "donkey" remark while referring to an advertisement of Gujarat government in which megastar Amitabh Bachchan promotes tourism in the state.Without taking any name, he advised the "biggest Bollywood actor of the century" not to "campaign for the donkeys of Gujarat".