A day after the Bahujan Samaj party chief Mayawati expressed her apprehensions of early lok Sabha elections owing to frequent visits by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Uttar Pradesh; the Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has said that his party’s alliance with the BSP has changed the body language of the prime minister. Akhilesh questioned the sudden spurt in prime minister’s visit to UP and demanded that the Narendra Modi to reveal the schedule of the next lok Sabha elections.
Targeting the prime minister for his recent visit to Azamgarh for laying the foundation stone of the Purvanchal expressway linking lucknow with Ghazipur, SP president said `` nowadays I do not listen to what the PM says in his meeting, but I look at the way he twists his wrist while addressing the meeting in Uttar Pradesh’’. He added`` the BJP government has deleted the prefix `Samajwadi’, from the expressway but the government should never ignore the fact that the expressway to east Uttar Pradesh passes through the strong hold of the Samajwadi party’’. SP president was addressing the youth who arrived here from Allahabad running Dalit chetna and Yuva chetna Yatra’’ at the state office of the party.
Drawing an analogy with the World cup football concluded on Sunday, SP President said `` it was evident from final match of world cup football that the team which controlled the ball for most of the time, lost the match as You would have seen that the loser in the world cup football final had the ball most of the time while the winner scored on the opportunity they got,”. He added `` you may see similar situation in UP during the next lok Sabha elections’’. The SP president, an avid sports lover, also said “Why India was not playing the world cup football when a small country like Croatia can play such football.”
He said the PM who has launched his election campaign in the country should first reveal the time of the lok Sabha elections as he must be aware of it,”. He added `` riding cycle is not an easy task but we Samajwadi’s are well versed in the job’’. BSP president Mayawati on Sunday had said that the lok Sabha polls could be held earlier along with the assembly elections of three states –Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
SP president also hit out at PM and said that his comment that Congress is the party of Muslim was unwarranted.” All the parties are of Indian citizens and politics should not be done on religion,” he said while defended the Congress, whose leaders had reportedly said that Congress is the party of the Muslim.
Criticising the BJP for shortening the length of the Purvanchal expressway to Ghazipur from its original concluding point of Ballia he said the next Samajwadi party government would construct the highway to Ballia.He said that though PM had laid the foundation of the Purvanchal expressway but everyone knows that it was the Samajwadi Party project.