PRAYAGRAJ, June 6 -- In a scathing attack on opposition parties, Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Saturday said those rendered "jobless" after losing power were the ones constantly raising questions against the government.

Speaking to media persons at Circuit House after interacting with BJP workers on the second day of his visit to the Sangam city, Maurya urged party cadres to begin preparations for the 2027 assembly elections.

He said the BJP was both the present and the future of Indian politics and claimed that neither the Samajwadi Party would return to power in Uttar Pradesh nor the Congress regain power at the Centre before 2047.

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