NDA countdown will begin with BJP defeat in 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls: Akhilesh Yadav
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NDA countdown will begin with BJP defeat in 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls: Akhilesh Yadav
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LUCKNOW: The BJP’s defeat in the 2022 assembly elections in UP will come as a countdown for the saffron brigade led NDA at the Centre and eventually mark the end of a regime more ruthless and unjust than what Indians faced during the British rule, said Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday. Akhilesh said the manner in which the jeep belonging to son of the Union minister of state for home mowed down four farmers in Lakhimpur on October 3 and the failure of the government to arrest the accused clearly shows what the government's claim of zero tolerance towards crime and criminal actually means. The former UP CM is slated to visit Lakhimpur on Thursday to meet the family members of the farmers killed in the incident. Addressing a gathering after paying respects at the Bada Gurdwara Nanakpuri Sunsarghat in Shahjahanpur on the anniversary of Sant Baba Sukhdev Singh Ji Bhuriwale, Akhilesh recollected the contribution of the Sikh community in the freedom struggle and renewed his party’s resolve to stand with the community like he stood in the past. Attacking the ruling BJP for turning a blind eye to the ongoing agitation of farmers against the farm laws, Akhilesh said the manner in which a jeep of a minister’s son has killed four farmers and no action has been initiated in the case explains the very intention of people in power. “UP is perhaps the only state in India where police officers wanted for murder are absconding and so expecting justice from such a government is meaningless,” he said and added that UP is the only state where businessmen sleeping in a hotel room is beaten to death by policemen. The former UP CM said the only way to ensure justice to farmers, unemployed youths and the deprived class is to remove the BJP government at the Centre. “The countdown for the government at the Centre will begin with the defeat of the BJP government in UP in the 2022 elections,” he added.
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The Times of India
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2021-10-07
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Lucknow