New Delhi: Slamming the Uttar Pradesh government over the Lakhimpur incident, former Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party (SP) President Akhilesh Yadav alleged that “the BJP government was anti-farmer”
He claimed that there will be a regime change in the state soon, news agency ANI reported.
“The BJP workers crushed and killed the farmers with their vehicles. This government is anti-farmer, manure-stealer, and is behind the rise of prices of pesticides,” Akhilesh Yadav alleged.
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While addressing the ‘Rath Yatra’ ahead of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2022, the Samajwadi Party leader claimed that “Fake Baba will be removed soon”.
Levelling accusations against the Adityanath government, he said: “This government has cheated the public. Under this government, inflation has increased, unemployment has increased, corruption has increased, crime has increased, law and order have collapsed”.
Meanwhile, he also informed that in the upcoming Assembly election, the Samajwadi Party will fight in alliance with the small parties.
“We will not ally with any national party,” he added.
While interacting with reporters in Kanpur Dehat district, Akhilesh Yadav also expressed confidence that his party can win 400 assembly seats in the upcoming 2022 state assembly election.
“Seeing the disappointment against the BJP govt, (it seems) that people of Uttar Pradesh can make our party win 400 seats in upcoming 2022 polls,” he said, as quoted by ANI.
He added that Samajwadi Party’s aim is to remove the Bharatiya Janata Party government from the state.
In reference to the inauguration of an international airport in Kushinagar district scheduled to be done by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 20, the former Chief Minister claimed that the airport was built by the Samajwadi Party government and BJP is trying to take credit for it.
“The airport which is being inaugurated has been built by the Samajwadi Party. Changing colours, putting one’s name on another’s work. This has started a new culture in BJP’s politics,” the SP chief alleged.
Akhilesh Yadav is on a ‘Vijay Rath Yatra’ in the state ahead of the crucial Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, which is scheduled to take place early next year.
In the 2017 Assembly election, the BJP won a landslide victory winning 312 Assembly seats. The party secured a 39.67 per cent vote share in the election for 403-member Assembly.
SP bagged 47 seats, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) won 19 while Congress managed to win only seven seats.
(With Agency Inputs)