Samajwadi party general secretary and the party leader in Rajya Sabha Ram Gopal Yadav has said that the clean and spotless image of the chief minister Akhilesh Yadav is a big asset of the party and the party will get immense benefit of non controversial image of the chief minister in 2-017 state assembly elections.
“Samajwadi party will regain power and form the next government in UP, in 2017. The personality of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav will make all the difference. The honesty and the dedication of the CM will certainly earn the party another term,”, said Ram Gopal Yadav.
The SP leader who was in Etawah on Thursday to cast his vote in council election, said `` there was positive environment for the party in the state due to the performance of the state government coupled with the image of the chief minister and the party will its benefit in the council elections’’. The SP leader expressed the confidence that the SP will win most of the 28 seats for which polling was held on Thursday.
Samajwadi Party general secretary defended the Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that disrupting Parliament by the opposition would serve no purpose. ``If the opposition members have any grievances or they find something wrong in the policies and actions of the government then there are rules and procedure under which they could raise that issue in the parliament but disrupting the functioning of the parliament for the sake of opposition serves no purpose’’, said the SP leader.
Without naming any party the SP leader said `` in recent past it seems to have become a practice for some parties to disrupt the proceedings of the parliament on trivial issues. If in their perception the government doing anything wrong then they should go for debate and discussion but disrupting the House is meaningless’’.
On the Union budget presented in lok Sabha on February 29 Ram Gopal Yadav took strong exception to some proposals in the budget. However he appreciated the measures taken for the farm sector and rural development in the budget.
“It is unfortunate that the salaried class have been ignored by the Centre and now even a peon would have to pay Income Tax. The Income Tax limit should be raised to Rs 5 lakhs per annum from the present Rs 2.5 lakhs,” he said.
Commenting on the Rs 35,000 crore given for the agriculture sector, the SP leader said in reality only Rs 20,000 crore was given in the sector while the remaining Rs 15,000 crore has been allotted to other head. “The Parliament committees would scrutinise the budget proposals to find out the truth’’, he said.