LUCKNOW: On February 26, Hitting out at those criticising the IAF airstrike in Pakistan's Balakot, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that the Centre's daring action would help bring the Narendra Modi government easily win the upcoming Lok Sabha election 2019 and seize power for a second term. The UP CM took to Twitter and tweeted a poem in which he exuded confidence that his party will comfortably win at least 74 out of 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh.  

न जाति न धर्म,
न ऊंच न नीच।
हम पहुँचा रहे विकास सबके बीच।

हिंदुस्तान,
कर रहा अभिमान,
उत्तर प्रदेश गढ़ रहा नए प्रतिमान,
रच रहा नयी पहचान।

आओ मिल सब साथ बढ़ें,
आओ मिल सब साथ चलें।

नए सफर पर उत्तर प्रदेश।

उत्तर प्रदेश 74 पार #PhirEkbaarModiSarkar

— Yogi Adityanath (@myogiadityanath) March 12, 2019

The UP CM had said in a tweet earlier “The solid step taken by the Narendra Modi government recently to conduct airstrikes in Pakistan … in view of the same, Narendra Modi ji will again form the government,”. In a series of tweets, the firebrand saint-politician hit out at the Opposition leaders for questioning the morale of the armed forces and raising doubts over the IAF airstrike in Pakistan. In some other tweets, the CM Yogi Adityanath expressed confidence that his party will win at least 74 seats in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha election 2019.

पुलवामा का मास्टरमाइंड मारा गया। पूर्वोत्तर में एक ही सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक से सभी आतंकवादी कैंप समाप्त करने के साथ उरी सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक के माध्यम से कश्मीर में आतंकवाद की कमर भी तोड़ दी गई है।

— Yogi Adityanath (@myogiadityanath) March 11, 2019

इसमें किसी को कोई संदेह नहीं होना चाहिए भाजपा गठबंधन मोदी जी के नेतृत्व में इस चुनाव में प्रचंड बहुमत से जीतेगा। उत्तर प्रदेश 74 प्लस के लक्ष्य को लेकर आगे बढ़ेगा, अमेठी और आजमगढ़ को भी भाजपा ही जीतेगी।

— Yogi Adityanath (@myogiadityanath) March 11, 2019

In the aftermath of the February 26 airstrikes by the IAF in Pakistan’s Balakot in which the biggest terror camp of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) group was targeted, BJP leaders in Karnataka and Jharkhand had said that their party would benefit from the action during the elections.

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BJP Jharkhand president Laxman Gilua had said earlier this month "BJP will win all 14 seats in the Jharkhand, our surveys tell us that," Prior to that, Karnataka BJP chief BS Yeddyurappa had said that the Balakot air strike has led to a "pro-Modi wave” in the country and would help the party win more than 22 seats in the southern state.

While the BJP central leadership had distanced itself from the remarks, maintaining that it doesn't want to politicise the airstrikes, Opposition leaders led by Congress had attacked the Modi government for using the IAF action for electoral gains.

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