Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday hit out at the BJP ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. He insisted that UP was with the Samajwadi Party, citing the presence of people at rallies. The former Chief Minister is presently undertaking a ‘Samajwadi Vijay Yatra’ in the poll-bound state.
Speaking to Times Now while on the ‘Samajwadi Vijay Yatra’ in Jaunpur, the former Chief Minister exuded confidence about the Opposition’s chances. “BJP wears religious spectacles and sees everything on the basis of religion as elections approach,” he contended.
The SP leader also hit out at the ruling party over “unfulfilled” poll promises during their 4.5-year tenure – from providing laptops and tablets to people to completing the construction of airports. The Yogi Adityanath-led government, he said, had failed on all fronts, and the party could not could one work that it had completed.
Over the last few days, the former Chief Minister has repeatedly accused the BJP of taking undue credit for initiatives that had been taken up or worked upon during the previous SP government’s tenure. Most recently, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Saryu Nahar National Project, Yadav had claimed that three-fourth of the work was done by 2017 during his regime.
Yadav also joined other Opposition leaders in calling for Union Minister of State Ajay Mishra to be suspended. He called the Lakhimpur Kheri incident a planned conspiracy to kill protesting farmers. The development comes mere days after the SIT of the UP Police submitted that the killing of four farmers and a journalist was “a pre-planned conspiracy” and that the violence leading to the deaths was “not an act of negligence or carelessness”. MoS Mishra’s son Ashish who is the main accused in the FIR now faces attempted murder charges.
With mere months left for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, political parties are leaving no stone unturned to woo voters. The dates are yet to be announced, but the polls will be held between February and March 2022.
