Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has cancelled the Rath yatra programme in the Bundelkhand region. Instead of yatra chief minister will address two rallies in Mahoba and Jhansi on Wednesday.
Sunil Yadav, MlC, presently expelled from the party and important member of the `team Akhilesh’ said the ``Vikas rath yatra was scheduled to commence from Mahoba on December 28 and after night halt in Mauranipur, a rally was planned to be held in Jhansi on December 29’’. .
The expelled MlC presently camping in Jhansi said Chief Minister on Wednesday will lay the foundation stone of a solar power plant in Charkhari assembly constituency in Mahoba district and also address a political rally in Kankhaua village of Charkhari sub division of the district. later he will fly to Jhansi and address another rally at GIC inters college grounds. In Jhansi chief minister will also distribute lap top computers and Samajwadi pension to the local people.
Akhilesh Yadav is focussing on Bundelkhand as he has proposed to the SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav to contest outside the core are of the Samajwadi party falling in Kanpur and Agra divisions. In the list of candidates submitted by the chief minister to the party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav has proposed three seats for himself –all in Bundelkhand region. The seats are Charkhari in Mahoba district, Baberu in Banda and Babina in Jhansi district. In 2012 assembly election the firebrand Sadhvi Uma Bharti of BJP was elected from Charkhari assembly constituency. After her election to lok Sabha from Jhansi in 2014, she had vacated the seat. In the ensuing by election Kaptan Singh Rajput of the Samajwadi party was elected from this seat. He had to resign few months later following his conviction in a murder case. Presently his wife Urmila Devi represents this seat.