New Delhi: Mulayam Singh Yadav, the patron of the Samajwadi Party, raked up the issues of caste discrimination and atrocities against the poor to attack the government on Friday.
Mulayam Singh Yadav campaigned for party candidates in Jaunpur for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, news agency PTI reported.
In his second public address ahead of the seventh phase of UP elections, the 82-year-old founder-patron of the Samajwadi Party said his party has always worked for the poor, youth, and the marginalised sections of society.
“The country is faced with big challenges today including those of discrimination of the basis of caste and injustice, atrocities being committed against the poor,” he was quoted by PTI in its report.
Yadav, the Lok Sabha MP from Mainpuri, said there were no special facilities for the needy, that educated youth were unemployed, and that farmers do not receive a fair price for their crops.
“In such a situation, the biggest responsibility lies with the Samajwadi Party. The party has always worked for poor, youth, uneducated and the ignored section of society,” Yadav, father of SP president Akhilesh Yadav, said.
“A challenge in front of you is that farmers do not get adequate price for their crops despite putting in such hard work. They are not getting any benefit. Farmers are being neglected. Educated youth are not getting jobs. Similarly, several other sections are being ignored today,” he said.
Mulayam said the SP's only target was to work for the poor, the neglected, the farmers and providing special facilities to those in need of support. "This is the target of the Samajwadi Party," Mulayam said.
He further said that it was only his party that was raising the problem of unemployment in the state. He claiming that if the SP came to power, it would give jobs and opportunities to youth to serve the people.
Yadav stated that the high turnout at the ceremony demonstrated that people had trust in the Samajwadi Party.
“See the condition today, there is violence somewhere and somewhere atrocity being committed. There is also caste discrimination. There is no question of caste, the Samajwadi party will take along all human beings,” Yadav said.
He was in Jaunpur to campaign for SP candidate Lucky Yadav, the son of his long-time associate Parasnath Yadav, who is running for the Malhani assembly seat in Jaunpur district.
Malhani, which elected Lucky Yadav to the Uttar Pradesh assembly in byelections in November 2020, returns to the polls on March 7 in the seventh and final phase of state elections.
On March 10, the election results will be announced.
(With PTI Inputs)