Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday said the conspiracy of denying reservation in UPSC appointments through backdoor lateral entry finally succumbed to the unity of PDA and the government had to withdraw its decision. However, he said the plan exposed the anti-reservation face of BJP.

“BJP’s conspiracies are no longer succeeding; this is a huge victory of awakening and consciousness for PDA. Under these circumstances, the PDA postpones the call for agitation against lateral recruitment by the Samajwadi Party, starting from October 2, and also pledges that it will not allow any such move to succeed in the future and will strongly oppose it. The way the public started joining our October 2 movement, this is also a victory for that unity,” he said in a statement on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Akhilesh said that if the officials had not committed dishonesty at the behest of the UP chief minister in the Lok Sabha elections, the Samajwadi Party and INDIA bloc would have won more than 50 seats in the state.

He claimed that the BJP government betrayed the farmers, youth and businessmen and made false promises to the public. “The BJP government deliberately kept leaking the papers, so that jobs and reservation could not be given. Businesses have been ruined, thanks to the inconsistent GST, even as inflation and unemployment are at their peak,” he added.

The SP president said that corruption had broken all records in the BJP government; there was corruption in every department and the budget had been looted.

“The law and order situation in the state has collapsed. The chief minister’s claim of zero tolerance to crime and corruption has no basis. The situation of UP is very bad in terms of crime against women. The victims and the poor are not getting justice. No one can get justice in the BJP government and there is disappointment in every class,” Akhilesh said.

“People now want freedom from the BJP and it is certain that it will lose in the upcoming assembly by-elections,” the SP chief added.

“It’s only when Uttar Pradesh is free from BJP that the people will get freedom from injustice, oppression, poverty, unemployment and inflation,” he claimed.

Akhilesh said that even after the big defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, some BJP leaders were not desisting from boasting. “The BJP leaders and the government have nothing left but to make false allegations and resort to rhetoric against the opposition. Instead of using power in the public interest, the BJP is misusing it,” he said, adding: “The BJP is continuously trying to defame the Samajwadi Party. In fact, the BJP is disheartened by the Lok Sabha election defeat. The public will teach a lesson to the BJP by defeating it badly in the coming by-elections.”