Lucknow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that five years back in the Western part of UP the daughters used to be scared to step out after it got dark. Today, they are making new records in the area of sports bringing laurels to the country at international events, he said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid foundation stone of Rs 700 crore Major Dhyan Chandra Sports University on Sunday at Meerut which is the birth place of Major Dhyan Chandra. Speaking on the occasion in a public meeting Modi bring the sensitive issues of exodus back into his discourse in Meerut, the gateway to western UP.

He called the region a fiefdom of mafia and criminals who used to compel people to migrate leaving behind their ancestral homes during previous Governments. The reign of terror was mitigated by Yogi Adityanath Government which was now playing jail-jail with those anti-social elements, he added.

Modi in his address claimed that how can people forget those days of terror when goons used to set their houses ablaze? It was a different game the mafias and criminals used to play in the previous government forcing the people migrate leaving behind their ancestral homes in this area.

PM Modi in his addressed attempted to raise the issue to attack the SP Government as the exodus happened during its rule. UP CM Yogi Adityanath had also visited Kairana assuring the Hindu population of the town that now nobody could dare to force them out of their houses and had claimed that the town was now witnessing reverse migration as Hindu families were coming back after the improvement in law and order.