Akhilesh Yadav said the BJP only knows politics of lies and deceit, and alleged that it has done nothing for the people.
Tag: Samajwadi Party
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Modi attacks SP, says it stands for ‘parivarwad’
By Express News Service
LUCKNOW: Raising the poll pitch in Purvanchal of Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday targeted the Samajwadi Party accusing it of deviating from the thought of socialist ideologue Ram Manohar Lohia who favoured integrating ‘karm’ (deed) with ‘karuna’ (compassion) for the cause of the deprived.
The PM charged the principal opposition party of the state with promoting ‘parivarwad’ (dynastic politics) instead of practicing ‘samajwad’ (socialism) leading the people to suffer during its regime. Modi’s made the comments while he was addressing a public rally in Kushinagar on Wednesday after inaugurating the international airport and development projects. The launch of several projects holds significance for eastern UP which comprises 164 Assembly seats across its 28 districts.
Referring to the Socialist ideologue during his discourse, the PM said, “Ram Manohar Lohia Ji used to favour integration of ‘karma’ (deed) with ‘karuna’ (compassion) and it should be executed with full compassion and honesty. But the previous regime was least bothered about the poor.’’
‘’The previous government’s deeds were integrated with scams and crime. The people of Uttar Pradesh know very well that these people are not ‘samajwadi’ (socialists) but ‘pariwarwadis’ (dynasts),’’ he said.
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Samajwadi party has moved from Samajwad to Pariwarwad: PM
Highlighting benefits of 'double engine' government in UP, he said over Rs 80,000 crore has been transferred in bank accounts of farmers in the state so far.
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Priyanka Gandhi will be face of Congress’ election campaign in UP: P L Punia
P L Punia was named as the head of the key 20-member election campaign committee of the Congress for the UP polls next year, on Friday, October 15, 2021.
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BJP only knows ‘jeebh chalana’ and ‘jeep chadhana’: Akhilesh Yadav
By PTI
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav Saturday took potshots at the BJP over the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, saying the ruling party only knows ‘jeebh chalana’ (lip service) and ‘jeep chadhana’ (mowing down people).
His criticism of the BJP came days after eight people were killed in violence during a farmers’ protest in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri which left eight, including four farmers, dead.
BJP leader and Union minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish has been arrested in connection with the case after he was accused of mowing down farmers with his vehicle.
The minister has defended his son, claiming he is “innocent”.
“The truth is the BJP knows only two things — ‘jeebh chalana’ (lip service) and ‘jeep chadhana’ (mowing down people).
Crushing people and suppressing their voice is their (BJP) agenda,” Yadav said while addressing party workers at the Samajwadi Party headquarters here.
Ashish and others have been named in the FIR filed in this connection and the latter was arrested last week.
Claiming the BJP government’s tenure was “full of failures”, Yadav alleged that because of “wrong policies” of the ruling party, the state lagged behind with runaway inflation and high unemployment.
“The entire tenure of the BJP government was full of failures.
Due to the wrong policies of the BJP government, Uttar Pradesh lagged behind and there was no control on inflation, unemployment.
The law and order also got worse,” said a party statement, quoting Yadav.
“The BJP government has not done any work in public interest.
The BJP is a strange party which is making tall claims without doing anything.
The double engine government of the BJP has harassed every section of society and has not done anything itself but has been appearing in advertisements claiming the works of the Samajwadi Party government as its own,” he said.
Speaking about the 2022 assembly elections, he said it would decide the direction of national politics and would also be a testing time for democracy. Cautioning the workers, the SP chief said, “We have to be careful of the possible conspiracies of the BJP. Since the BJP is very clever, this time there should be no mistake and SP workers and leaders need to mobilise themselves up to the booth level.”
He said people’s problems will end and the interest of farmers and youths protected only when the SP forms a government in the state.
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SP, BSP district chiefs among seven held for 17-year-old girl’s rape in Uttar Pradesh
By PTI
LALTIPUR: Seven people, including the district presidents of the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party, have so far been arrested in connection with the rape of a 17-year-old girl here, police said on Saturday.
Superintendent of Police Nikhil Pathak said the arrests were made following the girl’s complaint that she was raped for five years in different parts of the city and named 25 people in her complaint along with three unknown persons.
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A case was registered at Sadar Kotwali police station on October 12 against 25 people — including the victim’s father and uncle — and three unknown persons.
The SP said a hotel in Mirzapur district was raided on Friday from where Tilak Yadav and Deepak Ahirvar, the SP and BSP district chiefs of Lalitpur respectively, and an engineer named Mahendra Dubey were arrested.
The three were produced before a local court, which sent them to 14-day judicial custody.
Earlier, four people were arrested in connection with the case.
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Shivpal prefers alliance with Samajwadi Party, Akhilesh non-committal
Express News Service
LUCKNOW: Despite failing to get a positive response on clinching an alliance with Samajawadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav so far, his uncle and Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party president Shivpal Yadav is still hopeful of an understanding with his parent party ahead of the UP elections. Shivpal has made it clear that his priority was to form an alliance with the SP but has not ruled out a tie-up with other “secular” parties.
“Our priority is to have an alliance with the SP. It would be good if we join hands. But we are open to alliance with like-minded parties with secular values,” said Shivpal who exited from the SP in 2018 after a family feud during which Akhilesh took over the party reins and stripped him of all the party positions and cabinet berth in 2017.
“Our Samajik Parivartan Yatra took off from Mathura on October 12, the birthplace of Lord Krishna. It will cover all 75 districts before concluding at Ayodhya on November 27,” added Shivpal. As per party sources, Akhilesh hinted to Shivpal that he favoured a merger to which the latter was not prepared.
However, a political expert asserted that if the uncle-nephew duo joins hands before the poll, it will boost the SP’s prospects. “Shivpal is still revered among the Samajwadis as he has put in his blood and sweat with patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav in nurturing the party. People are still unhappy with his unceremonious exit. If Shivpal and Akhilesh come together, the SP will perform better than what it will if it contests without Shivpal,” said Prof A K Mishra.
Shivpal has been approached by AIMIM chief Assaduddin Owaisi and Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad. Both are part of OP Rajbhar’s Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha. The possibility of Shivpal joining the BSM cannot be ruled out if the alliance with SP fails to materialise.
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Samajwadi Party could win 400 seats in the upcoming polls, says Akhilesh Yadav
By ANI
KANPUR: Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said that his party could win 400 assembly seats in the upcoming 2022 state assembly elections.
“Seeing the disappointment against the BJP govt, (it seems) that people of Uttar Pradesh can make our party win 400 seats in upcoming 2022 polls,” said Akhilesh Yadav.
Yadav, while interacting with reporters in Kanpur Dehat district, said that Samajwadi Party’s aim is to remove the Bharatiya Janata Party government from the state.
Referring to the scheduled inauguration of an international airport in Kushinagar district by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 20, the former CM claimed that the airport was built by the Samajwadi Party government and BJP is trying to take credit for it.
“The airport which is being inaugurated has been built by the Samajwadi Party. Changing colours, putting one’s name on other’s work This has started a new culture in BJP’s politics,” said the SP chief.
Yadav is currently holding a ‘Vijay Rath Yatra’ in the state ahead of next year’s Assembly polls.
In the 2017 Assembly elections, the BJP won a landslide victory winning 312 Assembly seats. The party secured a 39.67 per cent vote share in the elections for 403-member Assembly. Samajwadi Party (SP) bagged 47 seats, BSP won 19 while Congress could manage to win only seven seats.
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‘Fake Baba will be removed’: Akhilesh Yadav slams Uttar Pradesh government over Lakhimpur Kheri row
By ANI
LUCKNOW: Slamming the Uttar Pradesh government over the Lakhimpur incident, former Chief Minister of state and Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Akhilesh Yadav alleged that “the BJP government was anti-farmer” and claimed that there will be a regime change in the state soon.
“The BJP workers crushed and killed the farmers with their vehicles. This government is anti-farmer, manure-stealer, and is behind the rise of prices of pesticides. Fake Baba will be removed soon,” alleged Yadav while addressing the ‘Rath Yatra’ ahead of 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election.
“This government has cheated the public. Under this government, inflation has increased, unemployment has increased, corruption has increased, crime has increased, law and order have collapsed,” he alleged.
Yadav said that in the upcoming Assembly polls the SP will fight in alliance with the small parties. “We will not ally with any national party,” he added. Yadav is on a ‘Vijay Rath Yatra’ in the state ahead of next year’s Assembly polls.
Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections are scheduled to take place early next year.In the 2017 Assembly elections, the BJP won a landslide victory winning 312 Assembly seats. The party secured a 39.67 per cent vote share in the elections for 403-member Assembly. Samajwadi Party (SP) bagged 47 seats, BSP won 19 while Congress could manage to win only seven seats.
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BJP to launch caste outreach in run-up to Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections
Express News Service
NEW DELHI: Sensing consolidation of the minority vote base behind the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, BJP will soon unveil a caste outreach in the run-up to next year’s Assembly elections, with an eye on consolidation of the backward caste electoral constituencies.
The BJP is learnt to have planned to reach out to each caste, with plans to hold meetings with intellectuals, besides rallies and public meetings. With the understanding that upper castes will continue to back the party, the focus of the saffron outfit will be more on other backward castes, economically backward castes and most backward castes.
BJP will have a number of meetings and the various wings of the party will hold two such meetings in each of the constituencies, to work for the consolidation of the vote base in favour of the party, said a senior BJP functionary.
The BJP is sensing that the Muslim-Yadav consolidation will be the electoral template of the Samajwadi Party led grand alliance if that takes the form on the line of the recent previous polls. “The minority vote base by and large will consolidate in favour of SP by taking a cue from the West Bengal Assembly elections where they strategically backed TMC across the state by distancing from Congress and Left parties. That pattern is likely in UP, which can give SP a good start,” said another senior BJP functionary.
While the Yadavs are known to have a preference for SP in the local polls, the BJP is learnt to have strategised to dent the core vote base of the Akhilesh Yadav led outfit, with hopes that even a 15-20 per cent drift of votes could meaningfully impact the outcome of the Assembly polls.
“The BJP will hold closed door meetings with intellectuals from each of the castes among the OBCs, MBCs, and EBCs since they are known to have the capacity to influence their caste members in times of elections. Besides, there will be exclusive public meetings of each of the caste groups,” added the BJP functionary.