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SP will give more relief than people can imagine: Akhilesh Yadav
What has BJP government done for farmers, asks Akhilesh Yadav at Lucknow rally organised by alliance partner Janwadi Party (Socialist)
Samajwadi Party (SP) national president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said his party will give more relief to people than they could expect or imagine once it forms the government in Uttar Pradesh in 2022.
He was addressing his first public rally in Lucknow in the run-up to the 2022 UP assembly polls with the slogan “BhaJaPa hatao, pradesh bachao(oust BJP, save UP)”. The SP’s alliance partner Janwadi Party (Socialist) organised the rally at Ramabai Ambedkar Ground .
“We will give more relief to people than they could expect or imagine — from price rise, unemployment, etc,” Akhilesh Yadav said.
He said that BJP was headed for defeat in the state and the SP will have a historic victory in the elections.
“This BJP government only helps industrialists and capitalists, and metes out step-motherly treatment to the poor and the youth. The quality of education has nosedived under the BJP government. And even if the youth manage to complete their education, then there is a dead end when it comes to employment,” the former chief minister said.
Akhilesh Yadav also said: “The BJP government proclaims itself as dumdaar sarkar (powerful government). Then, tell me what did this government do for farmers? It had said that it will double the farmers’ income; it failed. While the reality is you farmers are not able to sell your paddy, you are not getting DAP (a fertilizer), and other fertilizers. Diesel-petrol prices and power tariff shot up like never before. When diesel-petrol prices go up, the prices of commodities automatically shoot up.”
He described the BJP regime in the state as of one colour (saffron).
“We are taking all colours (different parties and communities) along,” he said.
“We brought together all communities and various political parties. We have allied with the SBSP (Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party), Mahan Dal, Apna Dal (Krishna Patel) and you (Janwadi Party-S). We have made an ensemble of different sections of society and the political parties and arranged them in a beautiful bouquet,” he said.
Referring to the Janwadi Party (S) national president Sanjay Singh Chauhan’s speech, Akhilesh said that the new SP government will get a caste census, so that backward classes, including Chauhans, can get social justice as per their numbers in the population.
Akhilesh Yadav said that the government was taking the three new farms laws back as, otherwise, the farmers would not allow them (BJP leaders) in their villages.
“But I say that farmers will continue their agitation till (legal guarantee) on MSP (minimum support price) for crops is introduced. Till farmers get MSP, the SP will continue to support their agitation,” he said.
In response, UP BJP spokesman Harish Srivastava.said, “The Jinnah-loving Samajwadi Party chief knows his party’s fate in UP. He is talking more in desperation than anything.”
