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  • No hope left for people from BJP-led UP government: Akhilesh Yadav

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday claimed there is no hope left for the people in Uttar Pradesh as the BJP government is engaged in ‘bandar baant’, a Hindi word which suggests that the ruling party only looks after its own people.

    Yadav also accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state of mishandling the Covid crisis, alleging costly treatment of coronavirus, negligence in treatment of black fungus, shortage of life-saving medicines and stalled development works.

    “There is no hope left for the people from the BJP government which is engaged in ‘bandar baant’,” he said in a statement issued here in Hindi.

    ‘Bandar baant’ refers to a story in which a monkey grabs an entire ‘roti’ on the pretext of dividing it between two cats.

    Due to not taking effective steps timely, failure in proper assessment of situations and wrong management, figures show that Uttar Pradesh is lagging behind in COVID-19 vaccination, he said.

    Yadav also accused the state government of fudging the Covid figures.

    Calling the BJP’s ‘Sankalp Patra’ during 2017 polls a bundle of lies, he said, “The truth is that there was record unemployment in the BJP rule and inflation is high.

    Prices of petrol-diesel-cooking gas are touching the sky, neither is there work in MNREGA, nor there is trace of skill mapping. Trade, business, small-medium industries are getting ruined.” 

  • Against BJP’s vaccine, but will take government of India’s vaccine: Akhilesh Yadav on policy change

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday welcomed the Centre’s decision to provide free vaccines to states for all above 18 years starting June 21, and asked people to get themselves vaccinated.

    The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister also said that he would get himself vaccinated.

    “Seeing the public outrage, the government instead of politicising the corona vaccine announced that it would give the vaccines doses. We were against the BJP’s vaccine but welcome the vaccine of ‘Government of India’. I will also get vaccinated. I appeal to those who could not get vaccinated for the lack of vaccines to do so,” he said in a tweet in Hindi.

    In an address to the nation on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that the central government will provide free vaccines to states for all above 18 years starting June 21.

    When the coronavirus vaccine was launched in January, Yadav had sought to know from the government how the drive will be conducted and when the poor will get the shot free of cost.

    The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister had said he has faith in doctors of the country but not the government.

    Yadav had also triggered a controversy, saying he will not get himself injected with a “BJP vaccine” against coronavirus.

    “We have full faith in our doctors but not in the government. It is good that coronavirus vaccine has come out but only believe what the doctors say, not Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath,” he had said.

    SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav had got himself vaccinated at a private hospital here on Monday.

    The BJP’s Uttar Pradesh unit had described it as a “good message”, and said SP workers and its president should take inspiration from him.

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  • Environment suffered most since BJP came to power in UP: Akhilesh Yadav

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: The environment has suffered the most ever since the BJP came to power in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav said on Saturday and accused the government of making tree plantation drive a “joke”.

    On World Environment Day, he alleged that the BJP government has been making false claims about environmental protection and the “trees have been growing only in government flies”.

    It was under the Samajwadi government that concrete steps were taken in this direction.

    It had set a Guinness Book world record in tree plantation while ponds were dug and green parks developed in the Bundelkhand region, he said.

    “In Uttar Pradesh, the BJP government runs tree plantation campaigns every year. But to date, it has not been able to give details about where and how many trees have been planted in which year during his reign, and how many saplings planted are left. In fact, the environment has suffered the most ever since BJP came to power,” he said.

    The BJP government has squandered the budget under the cover of tree plantation drive, the Samajwadi Party chief alleged in a statement.

    “Its latest claim has been planting 30 crore saplings this year. If we go by the claims of the government, there should have been a forest growing in every house. The BJP, which plants the seeds of hatred and lies, are playing with the environment and have made tree plantation a joke,” he said.

    The forest wealth is facing danger. The imbalance in nature has increased, as a result of which heat is increasing.

    There is a shortage of different resources and a change is also seen in the season cycle, Yadav said.

    “Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath can make any claim he likes but the Niti Ayog has exposed the reality of where the state stands.”

    Yadav also extended his wishes to all the countrymen on World Environment Day and stressed that environmental protection is indispensable for the earth.

  • Akhilesh Yadav should step out to see arrangements made for people: UP govt

    In an official release, UP government spokesperson Sidharth Nath Singh asked Yadav to come out of his self-conceived notions and accept the ground reality of arrangements made by the government.

  • Govt must be held accountable for ‘failing’ its people: Akhilesh Yadav after bodies found floating in Ganga

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: After a number of bodies were seen floating in the Ganga in the past few days, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said the government must be held accountable for “failing” its people badly.

    According to Ballia residents, at least 52 bodies were seen floating at the Ujiyar, Kulhadia and Bharauli ghats in the Narahi area.

    However, the district authorities did not tell the exact number of bodies found there.

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    “Bodies found floating in the Ganges are not a statistic, they’re someone’s father, mother, brother and sister.What has transpired shakes you to your core. There has to be accountability from the very government that has failed its people so badly,” Yadav said in a tweet.

    In a separate tweet, he thanked the British Association of Physicians of India Origin (BAPIO) for providing ventilators and oxygen concentrators to India.

    “I want to thank the British Association of Physicians of India Origin, (BAPIO) for their donation of 122 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators. It is yet another reminder we are all in this together. Thank you for leading with your hearts BAPIO!”, he tweeted.

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  • Uttar Pradesh govt using unethical ways to hide failures in managing COVID situation, says Akhilesh Yadav

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Wednesday said the Uttar Pradesh government, which claims that the World Health Organization (WHO) has lauded its COVID-19 management, has not hesitated from using unethical ways to hide its “failures”.

    In a statement issued here, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said the BJP government, which has “fudged” the figure of COVID casualties, is not even pained by the sight of bodies flowing in the Ganga and patients dying at the doorstep of hospitals.

    “It would have been better had the chief minister informed us as regards when the poor people will be vaccinated and when action will be taken against those indulging in hoarding and black-marketing of oxygen cylinders, injections and medicines,” he said.

    The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said if the state government cannot provide free COVID vaccines to all, then after coming to power in 2022, the SP will inoculate everyone in the state for free.

    Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said the WHO has praised the efforts of the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh in tackling the pandemic.

    “You may or may not have seen today’s news. The World Health Organization has praised the work of the Uttar Pradesh government. It is not a small thing,” Singh, who represents Lucknow in the Lok Sabha, had said here.

    In a tweet on Monday, the WHO said, “In #India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh, the state gov. has initiated house-to-house active case-finding of #COVID19 in rural areas to contain transmission by testing people with symptoms for rapid isolation, disease management & contact tracing.”

    SP MLC Ashutosh Sinha, who hails from Varanasi, said, “The BJP government has miserably failed in managing the COVID situation in the state. Black-marketing of Remdesivir injections is rampant. The demand for ‘kafan’ (a piece of cloth used to wrap a dead body) is currently higher than that for clothes in Varanasi. People are even paying bribes at the crematoria to expedite the last rites of their near and dear ones.”

    Congress leader from Mathura Pradeep Mathur told PTI that when the elected public representatives are finding it difficult to get beds in hospitals, the plight of the common man is easily imaginable.

    “The BJP government has failed and it must relinquish the office,” he said.

  • Frightening pictures coming from UP hospitals exposing tall claims of CM Yogi Adityanath: Akhilesh Yadav

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday accused the ruling BJP government in Uttar Pradesh of remaining in “isolation” and said that the frightening pictures coming from hospitals are exposing the tall claims of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

    “The BJP government did nothing in past four years and remained in isolation due to which it has put entire state in isolation now. The tall claims of Adityanath is exposed in frightening pictures and videos coming from hospitals daily,” Yadav said in a statement here.

    He also questioned the work being done by chief minister’s ‘Team-9’, saying that in some cases, entire families are COVID-19 positive and no one is there to take care of them.

    The SP leader also alleged that alive people are being declared dead in hospitals.

    “There is no proper supply of oxygen and no beds in hospitals. Hundreds of people are dying due to mismanagement and BJP government is responsible both administratively and morally,” Yadav said, adding that such irresponsible government is of no use to people.

    ‘Team-9’ comprises a nine-member set of ministers and bureaucrats who are tasked with managing the COVID-19 crisis.

    It will take policy decisions and ensure their implementation, giving reports directly to the chief minister, a government spokesperson had said.

  • Provide Rs 50 lakh aid to kin of those who died due to COVID during poll duty: Akhilesh Yadav to UP govt

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday demanded the BJP government to provide Rs 50 lakh financial aid to families of officers and teachers who died due to COVID-19 while performing their duty in the Uttar Pradesh panchayat polls.

    He said the Yogi Adityanath dispensation should provide them assistance otherwise government employees and teachers will be forced to boycott the counting duty.

    “The government should provide Rs 50 lakh financial assistance to families of officers, teachers and employees who died due to coronavirus while performing their election duty in the panchayat polls,” Yadav said in a tweet in Hindi.

    Uttar Pradesh is among the 10 worst-hit states in terms of coronavirus deaths and cases.

    A record single-day rise of 298 COVID-19 fatalities in the state pushed the death toll to 12,241 on Thursday, while the infection tally mounted to 12,17,955 with 35,156 fresh cases.

    The Allahabad High Court had asked the Uttar Pradesh government to conclude the panchayat election process by May 25.

    The counting of votes will take place on May 2.

  • ‘No place in crematoriums, no beds in hospitals’: Akhilesh Yadav slams Uttar Pradesh government

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: Attacking the Yogi Adityanath dispensation in the state over the coronavirus crisis, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday alleged the government has lost control over administration which is why the pandemic was spreading fast in the state.

    In a statement issued here, he also slammed the chief minister for campaigning in elections in West Bengal and other states. “The BJP government has lost its control over administration. Ignoring warnings of scientists and doctors, the CM became star campaigner and left for election campaigning in other states and his Team 11 (core team of 11 officers) went in the rest mode. Due to this, neither the spread of coronavirus nor the number of deaths due to it could be controlled,” Yadav said in a statement issued here.

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    “The government is still doing formality in meetings and not bothered about lives and problems of people. The state never had such an insensitive government. The news that are coming are very horrifying. In Bareilly, there is no place left in crematorium. In Agra, Ghaziabad and Kanpur too, there is similar situation,” he alleged.

    He said the situation is miserable in Lucknow too where one could not get ambulance and admission in hospitals have become impossible, leaving people to die.

    “Is this the manner in which the BJP made the state happy? There is no place in ‘shmashan’ (crematoriums) and no beds in hospitals. The government has become deaf and dumb. There are the arrangements which the prime minister and the chief minister used to advertise about. It will be better if the BJP leaves the government and stops playing with the lives of people,” Yadav said.

    Meanwhile, the state BJP on Monday said it will start a “helpdesk” to provide medical and other help to people.

    BJP state media in-charge Manish Dixit said that the helpdesk will have district presidents, medical cell office-bearer and on other senior party office-bearer and it will coordinate with the local administration, people’s representatives and ministers to help people.

    The decision was taken at a meeting of the party state president with other party leaders.

  • Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath, his cabinet colleagues and SP chief Akhilesh test positive for COVID

    Express News Service
    LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath and former CM and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav have tested positive for the deadly coronavirus here on Wednesday. Both had given their samples for testing on Tuesday.

    Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had gone into self-isolation and had started working virtually on Tuesday after a bunch of senior IAS officers, deputed in his office, had tested positive for the deadly virus. Those officers included  CM’s OSD Abhishek Kaushik, Additional Chief Secretary SP Goel and CM’s personal secretary.

    CM Yogi shared the information about his test report on Twitter appealing to those who had come in his contact to get themselves tested as well. “With the appearance of initial symptoms, I gave my sample for test and my report has come positive. I am in self-isolation and following the doctor’s advice in letter and spirit. I am working virtually. Those who happened to have come in my contact in the recent past should also get themselves tested and take all precautions,” tweeted the CM.

    #COVID19 UP record 20,458 fresh cases in past 24 hours and 67 deaths. Total active cases in state cross 1 lakh mark, standing at 1,11,835 @NewIndianXpress @TheMornStandard
    — Namita_TNIE (@Namita_TNIE) April 14, 2021

    Expressing concern on the positive report of CM Yogi, both the Deputy CMs Keshav Maurya and Dr Dinesh Sharma talked to the CM. “His voice was sounding a bit heavy. Otherwise, he is fine. A team of doctors is looking after the CM and we hope that he will be fine soon,” said Maurya and Sharma too wished him speedy recovery saying that he was a very disciplined human being who would be hale and hearty soon.

    Meanwhile, UP cabinet ministers Ashutosh Tandon and Surya Pratap Shahi have also tested positive on Wednesday. While Tandon is Urban Development Minister, Shahi is the state’s Agriculture minister.

    On the other hand, former UP CM and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav also tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday. Last week, Yadav had travelled to Haridwar, meeting various religious leaders. He had also come in contact with Mahant Narendra Giri, chairman, All-India Akhara Parishad, who had tested positive soon after. Following this, Yadav had given his samples for the COVID-19 test on Tuesday.

    The former Chief Minister has quarantined himself at home and his treatment has started under the supervision of a medical team. Taking to Twitter, he had appealed to all who came in contact with him over the last couple of days to get their tests done.

    After he tested positive, his family including wife, two daughters and son are also slated to undergo COVID-19 tests. It was not yet known whether or not he met his father Mulayam Singh Yadav over the last couple of days. Experts have advised COVID-19 tests for all his family and staff members.

    Panic gripped the Samajwadi Party after Yadav’s report. Many senior leaders who had met the party Chief in the last couple of days have registered themselves for RT PCR tests at government hospitals.