SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav
Akhilesh Yadav, the leader of the Samajwadi Party, announced a new slogan on Sunday: “80 harao, BJP hatao” (defeat 80, remove BJP). The phrase implies that if the BJP is to be ousted in 2024, it must lose all of the Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh.
He also targeted the Yogi Adityanath government, saying the law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh is “becoming worse”.
“Police is registering an FIR against the ruling MP…Policemen were involved in robbing of silver…Stolen goods are being recovered from police station…What a double-engine government of the BJP!,” Yadav said in a tweet in Hindi and used the hashtag
“#Assi_Harao_BJP_Hatao”.
He was purportedly making reference to the filing of a FIR against BJP Kannauj MP Subrat Pathak for allegedly assaulting police officers and the discovery of silver at the residence of a police officer.
80 Lok Sabha seats are in Uttar Pradesh. Only five elections were won by the SP in 2019 and two of those, Rampur and Azamgarh, were lost to the BJP in the by-elections.
In a statement issued here, Yadav said, “In the BJP government, ‘UP ease of doing’ means murder, rape, loot and corruption. Were MoUs for the supply and manufacturing of country-made pistols signed in the Investor Summit? Is training for crime being provided under skill development?”
“Instead of providing security and facilities to traders, there is freedom for their extortion and ransom,” he added.
Additionally, the SP leader claimed that corruption grew in Uttar Pradesh when the BJP was in power.
“Why is the chief minister not seeing what is happening right under his nose? Is there any involvement at a higher level? Why is the chief minister not remembering the claim of zero tolerance for crime and corruption?,” he asked.
BJP MP Harnath Singh Yadav responded to Yadav’s claim that the SP will win all 80 Lok Sabha seats in the general elections of 2024 by saying,
“Leave alone the claims of winning 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh, just win only one Lok Sabha seat, Varanasi. If your party does this, I will retire from politics and will also resign from the Rajya Sabha membership.”
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