Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday asserted that the BJP cannot win any election if it is held fairly and honestly, and called for sustained efforts to defeat the ruling party. Addressing party leaders at the SP headquarters here after a review meeting on teachers’ and graduates’ constituency polls, Yadav said, “We must keep working continuously to defeat the BJP. If elections are free and fair, no BJP candidate can win.”
According to a party statement, the SP chief accused the BJP government of weakening democracy, “colluding with officials” and “destroying the education system” by commercialising it, raising fees and leaving teaching posts vacant. He said the SP, during its tenure, had opened schools, colleges and medical institutions and recruited teachers on a large scale, but the BJP ruined everything.