Samajwadi Party is gearing up for the consolidation of its caste-based vote bank comprising the PDA (Pichhda-Dalit-Alpsankhyak) across the state.
The SP is setting up booth-level teams of cadre drawn specifically from the PDA.
SP spokesman Rajendra Chaudhary said on Sunday that for each booth, a team of 10 persons drawn from PDA would be constituted ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
He said along with the party leadership, all frontal organisations had been roped in for strengthening the party cadre at the booth level in all 80 Lok Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh.
Chaudhary said as soon as the booth-level teams were constituted, their database would be maintained at the state office of the party.
He said at the district level, regular meetings of the party cadre and training camps were being organised to identify the persons for the booth-level committees.
Rajpal Kashyap, president of the Other Backward Classes cell of the SP, said the PDA would be a formidable combination to take on the Hindutva agenda of the Bharatiya Janata Party which aims to divide the people on communal lines with the ultimate objective of communal polarisation.
Meanwhile, SP president Akhilesh Yadav said on Sunday that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had pushed back the state in all spheres of development.
He alleged that UP was on top in crime against women and custodial deaths. The SP chief claimed that anarchy prevailed in the state and development of infrastructure like power, roads and drinking water had come to a grinding halt.
Akhilesh Yadav said the river cleaning project Namami Gange was in a bad shape as thousands of crore of rupees had been spent but there was no let-up in pollution in the river Ganga and its tributaries.
He said the previous SP government had taken up the river cleaning project under which the Gomti Riverfront was developed. He said the riverfront and Janeshwar Mishra Park and Lohia Park were the lifeline of the state capital. He said the riverfront project had been ruined by the Bharatiya Janata Party government.
The SP chief said that no impact of the Smart City project was visible in big cities of the state as the unhygienic conditions prevailed in all big cities of the state.