New Delhi: The political battle lines are hard drawn in Uttar Pradesh as the state undergoes assembly elections. As the state moves further with the polling phases, the war of words seems to intensify each day.
On Monday, Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav responded to PM Modi’s remark on SP’s election symbol ‘Cycle’.
Yadav wrote on Twitter, “By connecting the farm and the farmer, lays the foundation of its prosperity, our cycle, Breaking social bonds, our cycle drops the daughter to school, Inflation has no effect on her, she gallops, our cycle, Cycle is the aircraft of common people, pride of rural India, insult of the cycle is an insult to the whole country.”
Yadav’s tweet came after PM Narendra Modi on Sunday linked Cycle to the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts that claimed several lives. While addressing a Vishal Jan Sabha in Hardoi, UP, the PM had said, “They had kept the bomb on the cycle. They had parked the cycle where the people sell vegetables…The blasts took place on the cycle. I am surprised why they chose the cycle.”
“We have to be alert always from such people, such political parties, these people also put the country at stake for their selfishness for the chair,” he added.
“They also play with the country’s security,” the PM added.
On Sunday, a special court gave the verdict of the serial blast case in which 38 out of 49 accused were given death sentences and the other 11 were sentenced to life imprisonment.
Uttar Pradesh is undergoing assembly elections in seven phases. The final phase of the election will be conducted on March 7. The results of the elections will be declared on March 10, 2022.