[ad_1]
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav Saturday hinted at a tie-up with uncle Shivpal Yadav’s Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (PSP) for the following Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections and emphasised that his get together will not get into any alliance with “big parties”.
“The SP will try (to form alliance with) parties which we have been in talks with. We will have an adjustment with small parties, but there will be no alliance with big parties,” Akhilesh stated whereas addressing the media in Etawah on Saturday.
Elections to the UP Vidhan Sabha are scheduled for February-March 2022.
Asked about the opportunity of an alliance with the BSP in 2022, he stated: “We have said that we will form alliance with small parties, but not with big parties.”
On risk of an alliance with PSP, Akhilesh stated: “I have said this in Lucknow also…. We will adjust the party (PSP). Jaswantnagar is their seat. The SP has left the seat for them. In future, their people should meet and form government. We will make their leader (Shivpal) a Cabinet minister too. What other adjustment is needed?”
Shivpal has been a five-time MLA from Jaswantnagar.
The SP chief additionally accused the BJP of resorting to “deceit” so as to defeat the RJD-led Grand Alliance in Bihar Assembly elections. He stated: “Maximum public support was seen at Mahagathbandhan rallies, and all surveys hinted towards a historic victory for it. But when the EVMs were opened, the results were stopped midway and victory certificates were handed to someone else.”
He stated: “Cheating on such a big scale has never been done (before). They (BJP) defeated Mahagathbandhan by cheating.”
Asked in regards to the latest bypolls to seven seats in UP, Akhilesh stated: “We won the seat which was ours. When the election is contested by DM, SP, ADM, SO and constables (alleging use of government machinery to win the by-elections by the BJP government), who will win?”
Asked why he did not go to Hathras within the aftermath of the demise of the 19-year-old Dalit girl, after she was allegedly gangraped, Akhilesh stated: “SP workers went and sat outside her village as part of demonstration.” The SP chief stated he spoke with the sufferer’s brother. “He asked me to help him get the body so that they could do the last rites. I told him I will try but the government may not budge… I called my MLC; I called the district magistrate… Our party did everything possible…”
© The Indian Express (P) Ltd
[ad_2]
Source hyperlink