New Delhi: Taking a jibe at the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh, former Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday said that the state does not need a Yogi government but a ‘yoga’ (saksham) government.
Taking a jibe at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, he said, “Uttar Pradesh does not need a Yogi Sarkar, but a ‘Yoga’ (Saksham) government.”
Accusing the BJP of “doing no work” apart from changing the name, he said: “It believes in filling pockets rather than potholes.”
Yadav, who was speaking to reporters at the party’s headquarters in Lucknow after former Uttar Pradesh Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief RS Kushwaha and former MP Qadir Rana joined the Samajwadi Party, demanded a caste census of their party. repeated.
He said that Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav had during the rule of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) demanded that a caste census be done.
Yadav also hit out at the BJP over Samajwadi Party MLA Nitin Agarwal filing his nomination for the post of Deputy Speaker in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly with the support of the ruling party.
“The candidate fielded by BJP belongs to which party? What can be expected from a government that inaugurates the projects that have already been inaugurated, and lays the foundation stone for the projects that have already been laid? he asked, PTI reported.
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The Samajwadi Party leader also rubbished claims of factionalism in his party and claimed that the BJP would not give tickets to 150 MLAs in the 2022 assembly elections.
It is heard that BJP is going to cut the tickets of its 150 MLAs. 100 MLAs are protesting in the state assembly against Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. We already have 50 MLAs. So the calculation is simple, we have crossed 300 seats,” he said, reported ANI.
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