UP polls: Akhilesh attacks BJP, says they promised missiles, couldn’t even make matchsticks

Akhilesh Yadav was addressing a poll rally in Sonbhadra which votes in the seventh and last phase of the UP assembly polls on March 7

Samajwadi Party (SP) national president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said the “BJP people” who promised to manufacture missiles in Uttar Pradesh could not even make matchsticks in the last five years.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav at a poll rally in Varanasi. (PTI PHOTO)

Akhilesh Yadav was addressing a poll rally in Sonbhadra which votes in the seventh and last phase of the UP assembly polls on March 7.

“Big events were organised and BJP people claimed that a series of factories would be set up. These people who claimed to make missiles could not manufacture even a matchstick in the last five years,” he said. They could not set up thermal power stations either, he claimed. Had they set up thermal power stations, power tariff would not have been so high, the Samajwadi Party chief said.

Taking a pot shot at the ruling party, he said that ever since the socialists (Samajwadi Party) talked about giving 300 units of electricity free of cost, “the transformer of the BJP has blown”.

Akhilesh also promised to improve irrigation, healthcare and education facilities.