Samajwadi Party president and local MP Akhilesh Yadav on Monday claimed in Azamgarh that his party would form the next government in Uttar Pradesh on its own strength after the 2022 UP assembly elections.
Yadav visited Azamgarh, his Lok Sabha constituency, for the first time after getting elected in May 2019.
Yadav said that the Bharatiya Janata Party governments at the Centre and in the state had failed on all fronts and the Samajwadi Party was standing with the farmers’ agitation with sincerity and honesty.
He alleged that the Centre and the state governments were anti-farmers. “Today, the farmers have launched a movement to demand their rights but the government is not willing to concede them. The inflation is galloping and the prices of essential commodities are rising continuously. Black-marketing is at its peak, the electricity tariff is also increasing,” he said.
The SP chief said the government was talking about doubling the income of farmers but now it was retracting from its promise.
The SP workers, who were very keen on meeting the party president, broke the door of the Circuit House as they lost patience. The SP workers also had an altercation with the policemen over the same matter. In view of the situation, Yadav went to an SP leader’s house without meeting the party workers.
Raising a question on the modus operandi of the Centre over the management of the coronavirus pandemic, Yadav said that other countries had made full preparations for vaccination but so far, there was no preparation in the country.
“Things are being said in the air. There is confusion about the vaccine today,” he said.
Responding to a question about alliance, the SP chief said that this time alliance would be with small parties.
Reacting to a question about Shiv Sena, he said that it was a personal matter and would be solved after sitting together.