Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav trained guns at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the increased prices of petrol and diesel.
During a rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur, Akhilesh Yadav said, “Petrol and diesel prices are increasing continuously. The BJP want to take money from the poor and give it to their rich businessmen friends.”
“People will bring the Samajwadi Party back to power,” he asserted.
Taking a jibe at Yogi Adityanath, the SP chief went on to add that “Baba CM” has booked his tickets from Lucknow to Gorakhpur on March 11.
The results of the ongoing Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur will be declared on March 10. Elections in UP are being held in seven phases will the last phase scheduled to be held on March 7.
Yesterday, Akhilesh Yadav attacked the ruling BJP over inflation, saying the government will increase the fuel price once the Assembly elections are over.
Addressing an election meeting in Payagpur Vidhan Sabha constituency for party candidate Mukesh Srivastava, the SP chief said the BJP government made diesel and petrol so costly that poor people are unable to drive their vehicles.
“Even farmers are not able to run their tractors. Keep this in mind, newspapers have also started writing that as soonas the elections are over, BJP people will hike the price of petrol to Rs 200 a litre,” he said.
He said the statements and behaviour of BJP leaders show that they now stooping to violence due to the fear of defeat in the polls.
