People’s Resentment Will Ensure BJP’s Defeat, Says Akhilesh Yadav

On Tuesday, May 21, Samajwadi Party (SP) national president Akhilesh Yadav said that the growing resentment against the BJP’s politics of hate, coupled with PDA’s resolve to protect the Constitution will spell defeat for the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

The Samajwadi Party’s poll plank of PDA stands for ‘Pichhade’ (Backward classes), Dalits, and ‘Alpasankhyak’ (Minorities).

Akhilesh Yadav said in a statement, “People are breaking all barriers of caste and religion to vote against the BJP because of growing anger against the party’s politics of hate and negativity. If people spread negativity and hatred, it comes back to haunt them.”

The Samajwadi Party supremo said further that the people were so peeved with the BJP that the 140 crore citizens of India would not even spare 140 seats for the saffron party.

He added that the BJP government at the Centre will soon change, along with the cabinet of ministers. Yadav, who is the former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, also said that those who take pride in using bulldozers against the poor have not used them against anyone involved in the paper leak.

He said, “Question papers of 10 recruitment exams have been leaked till now. This shows that these papers are being leaked as part of a design because the government does not want to give jobs to the youth.”

Yadav said further, “The BJP wants to change the Constitution of India because it gives us the right to vote. It gives us the right to reservation. It provides for a right to equality which in turn provides equal opportunity to grow and prosper.”

The BJP has sidelined the PDA constituents, women and poor and deprived them of their rights, he said. “SP and PDA have come forward to protect the Constitution and democracy in India,” Yadav said. He added that this urge to safeguard the Constitution will result in BJP’s defeat in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.

The national president of the Samajwadi Party said the BJP government held massive events to claim that investment was pouring into the state but nothing has emerged on the ground. He added that no factory or industry came up anywhere in the state.

Yadav said, “They promised to double the income of farmers by 2022, their loans have doubled instead and their incomes have been halved owing to rise in prices of fertilisers and logistics.”

He added, “The prevailing rural distress coupled with rising joblessness has left every section of the society depressed and angry. It is this anger that people are venting out against the BJP in the form of voting in favour of the INDIA bloc in large numbers.”