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Varanasi: Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajay Rai launched a scathing attack on the BJP governments at the Centre and in the state, calling their so-called ‘Amrit Kaal’ an “era of atrocities” marked by rising crimes against Dalits, backward classes, women and minorities.

Addressing a press conference at his residence in Varanasi, Rai said that the last ten years of BJP rule under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath have seen a “frightening rise” in atrocities against the poor and marginalised.

“This is not Amrit Kaal, it is Atrocities Kaal. The BJP has turned governance into a tool of oppression,” he said.

Rai accused both the Centre and the state governments of pushing inflation, corruption and anti-people policies. “Today, people are selling gold

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