Lucknow, Jan. 24 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday launched a scathing attack on opposition parties, including the Congress, Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), accusing them of turning Uttar Pradesh into a "beemaru" state during their regimes, while asserting that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has transformed it into a breakthrough state.

Addressing the Uttar Pradesh Day in Lucknow, Shah highlighted the scale of development achieved under the BJP-led government and said that the state has witnessed unprecedented progress over the past few years. He asserted that development has now reached every village of Uttar Pradesh, reversing decades of stagnation and neglect.

"There was a time when Uttar P...