In an attempt to win backward caste votes in the forthcoming lok sabha election Samajwadi party flagged off the fourth leg of the Samajik Nyaya Yatra here on Thursday that would pass through Kannauj, Mainpuri, Etawah, Firozabad and Aurriya.
The Yatra was led by Mining minister Gyatri Prasad Prajapati. Flagging off the Yatra Jail Minister Rajendra Chaudhry said that it is only Samajwadi party that is raising the voice of backwards. We demand that 17 sub-castes of Backwards should be included in the SC category, he said. "Samajwadi Party Government had earlier written a letter to UPA Government include these castes in SC but our request was ignored. With no option let we were forced to take out this Yatra," he said.
This Yatra will continue from February 6 to 10. Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav said that post-lok Sabha elections a Third Front government would come to power. "The SP will play an important role in the formation of the Third Front government after the nearing lok Sabha elections," Yadav said while addressing a gathering after inaugurating BTC faculty at Chaudhary Nathu Singh University in Mainpuri.
He said the BJP and the Congress for trying to defame the state government and misguiding the people. The people of the state will give a befitting reply to the communal BJP and the corrupt Congress in the polls," Yadav said.