India, Sept. 23 -- GORAKHPUR Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on the previous Samajwadi Party government over women's safety, saying that before 2017, families were worried about their daughters' education and security.

"Before 2017, a saying had become common in Uttar Pradesh - 'Dekh Sapai, bitiya ghabraai' (seeing a Samajwadi Party worker, the daughter gets scared)," he said addressing a function after inaugurating a government women's shelter in Chargawan here.

Adityanath alleged that the state had witnessed "goondaism (hooliganism), land grabbing and anarchy" during the previous government's rule.

"Today, UP is free from curfew, riots, fear, goondaism and land grabbing. When society and government...