Apart from RLD, talks with Mahan Dal and Dr. Sanjay Chauhan’s organization have reached the final stage, Mr. Yadav said.
Samajwadi Party, Rashtriya Lok Dal and some smaller parties will contest the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections together, and an announcement in this regard will be made soon, SP President Akhilesh Yadav said on Tuesday.
He said that apart from RLD, talks with Mahan Dal and Dr. Sanjay Chauhan’s organization have reached the final stage.
Mr Yadav said the BJP’s “cleaning” would start from western Uttar Pradesh and would be wiped out by the time the saffron party reaches Ballia (in eastern Uttar Pradesh).
He also confirmed the SP’s alliance with his uncle Shivpal Yadav’s Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia).
The SP chief was speaking at a media event here.
Mr. Yadav has already announced that his party will have No alliance with big parties like Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and would like smaller regional parties as partners in important elections.
When asked about the possibility of any tie-up with AIMIM, he did not show any inclination.
Speaking at News24’s conclave soon after Mr Yadav, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi hit out at the SP and BSP for taking 75% of the Muslim vote by fomenting the fear of the BJP, but doing nothing to uplift their standard of living.
In a scathing attack, the Hyderabad MP said that major non-BJP parties are running with the saffron party to prove themselves as a big champion for Hindutva and accused these parties of promoting majoritarianism in the country.
“The days are not far when India will have majoritarianism as a state policy like Israel,” Mr. Owaisi, who has announced that the AIMIM will contest 100 seats in the Uttar Pradesh elections, said.
He rejected Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s claim of no riots in Uttar Pradesh during his four-and-a-half-year rule.
The 2019 NCRB report says there were 5,819 communal clashes in the state, Mr. Owaisi said, adding that this is official data and can be verified.
He alleged that since the BJP has nothing to show in the Uttar Pradesh elections, Mr. Adityanath and others are using “like words”.abbajan“and “Chachajaan” as part of “divisive” politics.
He said such expressions are part of “dog-whistle politics”.
Feather attack on his residence In Delhi on Tuesday, Mr Owaisi said the incident took place a short distance from a police station and reflects efforts to “silence” the minority community.
He also used the incident, in which some right-wing activists were arrested, to dispel the allegation that “AIMIM plays a friendly match with the BJP in elections”.
Mr Owaisi alleged that Muslims were being targeted in Uttar Pradesh and 37 per cent of those killed in police encounters in the state were from the minority community.
Mr Yadav said that if voted to power, the SP will not implement the “Black Farm Act” in Uttar Pradesh and will reform the “Mandi” system in the state.
He insisted that Uttar Pradesh would get a new government in the upcoming elections and the people of the state wanted “progressive politics”.
Hitting out at the state government for the poor law and order situation, Mr Yadav said that Uttar Pradesh tops in terms of custodial deaths, the NHRC has served the state the most notices and a fugitive IPS officer has been caught. remains.
Targeting the BJP, he said, “The government with double engines is colliding with each other. When asked to comment on his strategy in the upcoming elections as compared to the 2012 election, the SP chief said he believed in the English phrase, “hit the iron when it’s hot”.
He also said that the BJP’s strength is propaganda of lies.
On a question of comparing the organizational strength of the BJP and the SP, Mr Yadav said his party had defeated the ruling party’s candidates in the parliamentary constituencies represented by the Chief Minister (Gorakhpur) and the Deputy Chief Minister (Phulpur) in 2018.
Asked whether he would be able to match the BJP’s money power in the elections, Mr Yadav said, “A cycle (SP’s symbol) does not require diesel or petrol.” Earlier, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait had claimed that BJP would not get more than 140 seats in the Uttar Pradesh elections.
Mr. Tikait also said that he has no faith in EVMs, adding, “We will not contest any elections.” He praised former Congress President Rahul Gandhi and said that the credit for land acquisition goes to him.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi will step down in the middle of his term and become the President. Yogiji should be promoted and he should become the Prime Minister,” Mr. Tikait said sarcastically.
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