Soon after filing his nominations from Azamgarh lok Sabha seat Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav assured that all education would be free of cost in Uttar Pradesh from July.
Yadav was given a rousing welcome as partymen showered rose petals on the SP chief. later addressing an impressive rally at ITI grounds on Tuesday , Yadav targetted Narendra Modi saying that he had never seen a bigger liar than Modi. “All his claims on Gujarat model development were nothing but a bundle of lies”, remarked the SP chief.
Attacking Modi, the SP chief said there was not a single death due to hunger in Uttar Pradesh, whereas 37,792 persons had committed suicide in Gujarat. A total number of 44,000 children were reported missing in Gujarat. Yadav asked Modi to answer the whereabouts of these children. He went on to say that Modi had in 2003 announced the construction of metro train. Despite a lapse of a decade there are no signs of the train.
Taking a dig at Modi, the SP chief said Modi had a set of more than 500 kurtas and he changed at least five kuyrtas in a day. Criticisng the BSP chief Mayawati, Yadav said not a single power plant was set up during the BSP regime.
Yadav has already filed his nominations from Mainpuri lok Sabha seat which will go to polls on April 24. However Azamgarh will go to polls onMay 12 in the last round of the nine-phased polls.
Yadav submitted his documents for Azamgarh seat to District Election Officer Nina Sharma. later talking to reporters he said “I will not leave Mainpuri seat after winning polls. I am contesting from Azamgarh due to pressure of party workers. “As BJP leader Narendra Modi is in fray from Varanasi, theparty workers wanted me to counter him by contesting from Azamgarh,” Yadav pointed out.
BJP candidate Ramakant Yadav also filed his papers for Azamgarh seat today.