Even as pressure is mounting in the Bharatiya Janata Party for Yogi Adityanath to contest the assembly election from Mathura constituency, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav said that Lord Krishna was featuring in his dreams everyday and assuring him that the SP would form the next government in Uttar Pradesh.
“Bhagwan Krishna comes in my dream every day. Bhagwan came yesterday also and told me that the Samajwadi Party will form the next government in Uttar Pradesh. I will contest the assembly election if directed by the party and the constituency will also be decided by the party,” Akhilesh said in Lucknow on Monday.
Meanwhile, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Harnath Singh Yadav dashed off a letter to BJP president JP Nadda on Monday urging him to declare Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as party candidate from Mathura assembly constituency, adding, that it would joy to people of Mathura.
“Lord Krishna has inspired me to write the letter asking for fielding Yogi Adityanath from the city of Lord Krishna himself. It is my humble request to you that there is a special desire of the people of Braj region that Yogi ji should contest from Mathura, the city of Shri Krishna and Lord Shri Krishna himself inspired me to write this letter to you,” Yadav wrote in his letter.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said he is ready to contest the upcoming assembly election from wherever his party decides. He has also said that he has fulfilled whatever was promised and has no regrets about his tenure.
“I am ready to fight the election from wherever the party says,” Yogi told reporters in Mathura when asked whether he would contest from Ayodhya, Mathura, or from his home district Gorakhpur.
Yogi is currently a member of the UP Legislative Council. After former UP Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav fought the state elections in 2003, none of his successors have contested the assembly polls. Before Yogi, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav too were members of the Legislative Council during their tenure as chief minister.