Hitting out at the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, Samajwadi Party president and former Chief Minister of UP, Akhilesh Yadav, said that the BJP was engaged in a conspiracy to “illegally capture democracy” in the State.
"With lies and deceit, the BJP wants to turn back the clock of development in Uttar Pradesh. The BJP leaders have come to realise that the public is going to remove them from the Government.
Samajwadi Party is committed to democracy and socialism and people have to act with utmost vigilance and understanding to save the democracy in the State," Akhilesh said on Thursday.
In a statement issued in Lucknow on Thursday, the SP chief said that looking at the policy and intentions of the BJP, it seemed that it was bent upon forming the Government akin to East India Company forming a government in India in the 19th century.
“The BJP's agenda is not to remove inequality from society but to widen the chasm between the rich and the poor. They are conspiring to hold the farming sector hostage to multinational companies and to push the future of the youth into uncertainty by eliminating village-based industries and promoting big industrial houses. The BJP does not want to implement socialist system," he alleged.
Akhilesh Yadav further said that the BJP had implemented policies that were detrimental for the farmers and farming community.
"The so-called three agricultural reform laws will ruin the agricultural system. In the midst of elections, the BJP Government has made announcements as a strategy to mislead the voters. The farmers should beware of this misinformation campaign. The present BJP regime has set records in robbery, petty crime and murders. Law and order is at its nadir. Women are living under the shadow of fear,” he said.
The SP chief said that the politics of the country was passing through a phase of transition.
"All the ideals of the freedom movement are being demolished. Constitutional institutions are being weakened. Socialists alone can counter the policies of the dictatorial BJP. In the UP Assembly elections to be held in 2022, the democratic forces along with Samajwadi Party will oust the BJP from power," he said.