Farmers Movement Archive

SP will tie up with small partiesfor 2022 state election: Akhilesh

Jhansi: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said on Thursday that he will join hands with smaller parties for the state Vidhan Sabha elections next year and will not have an alliance with bigger parties. He also claimed that SP will win over 350 seats in 2022 polls and will return to power. Akhilesh said the government has no development works to show and is busy in re-inaugurating the projects that were initiated during SP regime and have already been inaugurated. “When a person starts losing, he starts behaving in irrational manner. The CM is going through same condition as people will vote his party out,” Yadav said in a press conference here on Thursday. People of UP, especially the women, are unsafe under the present government. On the other hand, police is becoming more and more corrupt and is only busy framing people in false political cases, he added. “This government has lodged over 10,000 false cases against our party workers and is withdrawing cases against BJP men,” Yadav added. The government has gifted two years of extension to the DM who lodged false cases against Azam Khan, but has not been able to arrest former SP of Mahoba who is on the run, he said. “The language of ‘Thok Do’ used by the CM is not used in democracy. This government is ruining institutions like never before and is trying to finish democracy,” said Yadav, adding anyone who speaks against the government is labelled terrorist by the IT cell of BJP. Referring to the three new farm laws, Yadav asked why the government is clinging to a law which is not being liked by farmers. “The farmers will lose their lands to corporate houses because of this law and end up working as labourer in their own land,” said Akhilesh. “They are selling everything in the name of monetization. They have not created anything and are busy in selling everything,” he added. “We have vision while chief minister Yogi Adityanath is visionless. I advise him to first change the person he sees in in the mirror after waking up in the morning,” Yadav said.

The Times of India

2021-03-05

Kanpur