Samajwadi Party chief Mulyam Singh Yadav on Wednesday made it clear that inviting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to his grand nephew’s pre-wedding ceremony has nothing to do with politics and was no sort of friendship with the BJP. “Some people, including those in my village, were wondering why I invited him to Saifai. I invited the Prime Minister to my village as he is the PM of India, not of BJP,” Yadav said.
The Samajwadi supremo was speaking in the lok Sabha on the debate in connection with Motion of Thanks on President’s Address. He slammed the Government saying its slogan of ‘sabka saath, sabka vikas’ is a lie as its developmental pitch is only for the benefit of industrialists and not the common man.
Taking a dig at Modi for his ‘Swachchh Bharat’ campaign, he said, “Mere wielding a broom will not help in cleanliness.” Yadav noted that Modi had cleaned Assi Ghat in his Varanasi lok Sabha constituency by wielding a broom himself. “But things are back to what they were earlier... How can you clean Ganga without cleaning the tributariesIJ You will have to remove poverty to clean India,” the former UP Chief Minister said.
Yadav said the Government must desist from acquiring fertile land. He said barren land can be used to set up factories and gave the example of areas near Agra and Banda in UP. He said the media was with BJP and some media personnel were against him and had once declared him to be part of a dacoit gang.