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Regional parties to play key role in defeating BJP in 2024: Akhilesh Yadav

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Kolkata: Exuding confidence that an opposition alliance would take shape in the days to come, Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said regional parties would play a key role in putting up a fight against the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
However, on the role of the Congress in this proposed opposition front, Yadav said it is for the grand old party to decide.
“Efforts are on to forge an opposition alliance or front. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao are making efforts (on their own). I am confident that in the days to come, an opposition alliance will take shape, which will fight against the BJP,” he told PTI Video in an interview.
To a question whether he is putting the Congress and the BJP on the same pedestal, the SP chief said it is the regional parties in various states which are fighting the saffron camp.
“In many states, the Congress doesn’t exist in comparison to the BJP, but regional parties are fighting tooth and nail against the saffron camp on the ground, and I am hopeful that they will succeed,” he said.
When told that regional parties such as the JD (U), RJD and the DMK are keen on having the Congress in the opposition alliance, Yadav said they are already in a coalition with the grand old party.
“It is a question of a big fight, and the Congress itself will decide its role in this fight,” he said.
Asked who would be the face of the opposition camp in the next Lok Sabha elections, Yadav said it would be decided after the polls and is “not a pertinent question” right now.

“You are talking about face. What about the (BJP’s) face in 2014 and 2019, who made false promises to win the election?” he said without naming Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
None of the promises made by the BJP in 2014 and 2019 was fulfilled, the SP chief claimed.
When asked whether his party would contest in the Raebareli and Amethi Lok Sabha seats in UP considered pocket boroughs of the Congress, Yadav alleged that SP workers are being killed in Amethi.
“In Amethi, our cadres are being killed. The Samajwadi Party workers are questioning who will fight for them. It is the Samajwadi workers there who are supporting each other; the Congress workers are not coming out in our support,” he said.
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi is the MP of Raebareli while her son and former party president Rahul Gandhi was defeated by Union minister Smriti Irani from Amethi in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Yadav said the Samajwadi Party would leave no stone unturned to stop the juggernaut of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh in the next Lok Sabha polls.
“If the BJP wants to come to power in 2024, it has to win in UP. We will ensure that the BJP is defeated in UP and also in the country. In Uttar Pradesh, we will fight with our existing allies,” he said.
The SP and the Congress had joined hands in the 2017 assembly polls in UP but lost to the BJP. In the Lok Sabha polls held two years later, the grand old party was kept out of the SP-BSP alliance in the state.
Speaking on the Adani issue, the SP chief slammed the Centre for allegedly allowing the loot of the country’s assets and public money.
He asked, “Why no question is being asked about the so-called number two (richest man)? Why is there no accountability on public money in LIC and SBI which is getting lost?”
The Hindenburg report that alleged accounting fraud and stock manipulation at the Adani group, came just as a Rs 20,000 crore follow-on share sale of the conglomerate’s flagship firm Adani Enterprises opened in January.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 19, 2023
Akhilesh slams Centre for misusing central agencies, to meet Mamata this evening

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Kolkata: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday slammed the BJP-led government at the Centre for misusing central agencies to “harass leaders and public representatives of opposition parties”, who pose a threat to the saffron camp.
Yadav, who is in the city to chair his party’s two-day national executive, is scheduled to meet West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Friday evening.
“The ED, CBI, and Income Tax are political weapons of the BJP. Here in Bengal, the instances are less. In Uttar Pradesh, several of our (SP) leaders, including MLAs, are in jail in false and fabricated cases,” he told reporters after reaching Kolkata airport.
“The BJP sends the ED and CBI to harass those opposition parties which threaten it,” he said.
Samajwadi Party is holding its two-day national executive in Kolkata from March 18 to discuss policies and strategies for the assembly election in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh later this year and the Lok Sabha poll in 2024, sources in SP said.
Yadav is also scheduled to address the workers meeting at Moulali Yuva Kendra this afternoon.
He will then go to Banerjee’s residence to meet her, the sources said.
The two leaders share a very cordial relationship.
Yadav had lent his party’s support to TMC during the 2021 Bengal assembly poll, which was reciprocated by Banerjee when she campaigned for the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister during the 2022 election in that state.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 17, 2023
Caste census right solution to reservation problem: Akhilesh Yadav

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Lucknow: Days after the Allahabad High Court observed that several illegalities were committed in fixing quota for appointment of 69,000 assistant teachers, Samajwadi Party chief Akhliesh Yadav on Wednesday attacked the BJP government over the issue of reservation and asserted that a caste census is the right solution to this problem.
“The decision on recruitment of 69,000 assistant teachers has come. It is the result of weak arguments in the case by the BJP government, which is against the basic spirit of reservation.
“To take away the rights of Dalits-backwards, BJP complicates the reservation issue through ‘vidhai mayajaal’ (legislative illusion). Caste census is the right solution to this problem so that reservation can be provided in proportion to the population,” Yadav said in a series of tweets in Hindi.
The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on Monday held that the authorities committed several illegalities in fixing quota for appointment of 69,000 teachers in Uttar Pradesh through the Assistant Teachers Recruitment Examination (ATRE)-2019.
The court had directed the state government to review the final list issued in the matter on June 1, 2020, within the next three months after fixing the reservation in a proper manner.
The bench had also quashed the select list of 6,800 teachers issued on January 5, 2022.
“This is the sad story of ill-treatment meted out to the Dalits and OBCs in the BJP government. Is this the ‘Amritkal of freedom’ where assistant teachers are wailing on the streets to protect their livelihood? Will India become Vishwaguru just like this?
This time, 69,000 will bring change!,” Yadav said in another tweet with a video of protesting teachers.

In a separate tweet with another video of protesters, Yadav said, “Where there is no right to protest for one’s rights, everyone has to come forward to revive democracy. Now the Dalit-backward youth have understood the conspiracy of the BJP regarding reservation. BJP should remember that the youth have the power to change the ‘yug’ (era).”
The HC in its order had said that the reservation limit must not exceed 50 per cent of the total seats in any circumstances.
“Apparently, there was no clarity of the score and details of the reserved category candidates, who appeared in the ATRE 2019. There had been no endeavour from the state authorities, who are custodian of the records of the ATRE 2019 and would have assisted this court in providing the said records,” a bench of Justice Om Prakash Shukla said in his verdict disposing of as many as 117 writ petitions.
The court also showed sympathy to the teachers, already posted, facing ouster as result of the review, but went on to rule that the order will work to restore the balance of equity.
“It is the state authorities, who were under a constitutional duty to implement the provisions of the Reservation Act in its letter and spirit. However, the same has not been done, this court in order to balance the equity and keeping in mind these young men and women, who as teachers are going to shape the future of this country,” the court said.
It had granted liberty to the state government to frame a policy for adjustment of teachers who may be ousted by a revision in the select list of June 1, 2020.
Hearing a bunch of petitions, the bench had to look into the correctness of the quota provided by the state authorities in appointing 69,000 assistant teachers.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 15, 2023
Opposition alliance: Mamata, Akhilesh likely to meet in Kolkata

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Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav are likely to meet in Kolkata on Friday to discuss opposition unity for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Trinamool Congress sources said.
According to the sources, the two leaders, at the meeting at Banerjee’s residence at Kalighat in south Kolkata, are likely to discuss possibilities of having a grand opposition alliance against the BJP but without involving Congress in that initiative.
“Akhilesh Yadav will be attending a national working committee of his party at a hotel in Kolkata on Friday. After attending that meeting, he is likely to go to the Chief Minister’s residence at Kalighat at around 5 p.m. Before that on the same afternoon, the chief minister has convened a meeting of the core committee of her party at 3 p.m. which will also be attended by Trinamool Congress’s national General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee,” said a senior member of the West Bengal cabinet who refused to be named.
Last week, leaders of eight opposition parties, including Banerjee and Akhilesh Yadav, wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi complaining that the central agencies like Central Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate are specially targeting the opposition parties in the country in a biased manner. However, there was no signatory from Congress or the Left parties in that letter.
On Monday on the occasion of the last day of the extended budget session of the West Bengal Assembly, a motion was passed condemning the hyperactive role of the central agencies in West Bengal. Speaker Biman Bandopadhyay observed that if the central agencies decide to take any action against any member of the house, the office of the Speaker should be intimated first. However, when that motion was passed none of the opposition BJP legislators were present within the house.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 14, 2023
Vote to save Constitution in 2024: Akhilesh Yadav

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Bijnor: Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav on Monday exhorted people to vote in the 2024 general election to “save the Constitution” as he accused the BJP of rigging last assembly elections and ensuring loss of his party candidates.
“This time, you all have to vote to save the constitution. In the last assembly polls, BJP and the state administration ensured the defeat of opposition candidates, who were winning,” Yadav told reporters here.
Naemul Hasan, who contested from Dhampur seat, was winning by a margin of 203 votes but was declared defeated by the administration, he said.
On the bulldozer policy against encroachment championed by the BJP-run state administration, Yadav said in Varanasi alone there are over 20 thousand illegal constructions belonging to BJP men, but no action has been taken against them.
“In Bareilly, a petrol pump of party leader Shahzil Islam was demolished, but in the same city there are illegal nursing homes and petrol pumps belonging to BJP men and that were spared,” Yadav said, and wondered when will the government move to raze such structures owned by people from BJP.
In an apparent reference to the alleged financial irregularities committed by Adani group, Yadav said the LIC and SBI suffered losses because of it, but the Central government is still using ED and CBI to attack the opposition.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 13, 2023
Akhilesh alleges BSP candidates are finalised by BJP

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Lucknow: Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav has alleged that Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidates are finalised at the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) office to prevent the victory of SP nominees.
“The BSP has strayed from the path of Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar and its founder Kanshi Ram. The BSP has colluded with the BJP and works as the B-team of the ruling party. In the previous assembly elections, the BJP office finalised the BSP candidates. The BSP candidates were fielded not for victory, but to prevent the SP candidates from winning,” he said.
“All the raids by CBI, ED and income tax department are being carried out on opposition leaders with political intentions.”
The SP chief claimed the raids were being executed to discredit the opposition parties because they were standing firm against the ruling BJP.
“But the public is aware and understands all the raids are motivated by the approaching Lok Sabha polls,” he said.
Akhilesh Yadav said raids on a perfumer in Kannauj had unleashed the propaganda that money was found with the trader who had made the “Samajwadi perfume”.
“But when the truth surfaced, it was exposed that the trader was associated with the BJP. The BJP gets investigation agencies to do such raids before elections and those found tainted by the CBI, ED, and income tax department, join the BJP and enter a safe zone. Raids are no longer carried out at their places,” he said.
Akhilesh Yadav also attacked the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh asking it whether it will take “bulldozer” action against an IPS officer whose old video of the officer demanding money from a businessman emerged on social media on Sunday.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 13, 2023
BJP aping Cong in misusing probe agencies, will meet Cong’s fate: Akhilesh

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Ahmedabad: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said the Bharatiya Janata Party is following in the footsteps of the Congress in using probe agencies to carry out “political raids,” and will meet the same fate as the Congress.
He was replying to a reporter’s question about the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) questioning Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi and issuing summons to Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav.
Central probe agencies like the CBI, ED and Income Tax were working at the BJP government’s behest, the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister told reporters.
The Congress, when it was in power, used the ED, CBI and I-T department to conduct raids on several political leaders in the country, he said.
“The BJP is doing nothing new by following the same path. If Congress has been today razed to the ground, the BJP will meet the same fate,” Yadav further said.
The SP leader was here to attend a function in the family of former Gujarat chief minister Shankersinh Vaghela.
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh was “not on the path of truth, and bulldozer has replaced the path of non-violence,” Yadav said to another question.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 11, 2023
BSP MLA murder case: Yogi, Akhilesh trade barbs on crime in UP

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Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Assembly witnessed noisy scenes on Saturday as Leader of Opposition Akhilesh Yadav sought to corner the state government over the killing of a prime witness in the 2005 BSP MLA murder case, drawing a sharp retort from Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Adityanath alleged that Samajwadi Party not only nurtured criminals, but also made them MLAs and MPs, and said his government will “decimate” (mitti me mila denge) the mafia.
Umesh Pal, the prime witness in the 2005 murder of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Raju Pal, was shot dead outside his residence here, the police said.
Police on Saturday registered an FIR against several people, including former MP Atiq Ahmed. The mafia-turned-politician is currently lodged in a Gujarat jail. Atiq was a SP MP from Phulpur parliamentary constituency (in Prayagraj).
When the House assembled for the chief minister’s speech on the Governor’s address at 11 am, the SP and Yadav tried to corner the government over Pal’s killing.
The chief minister termed the Prayagraj incident “sad” and said the government has taken cognizance of it.
He said, “I would assure the House that the action which has been taken under the zero tolerance policy, its result will be out soon.”
Without taking any names, the UP chief minister said, “Who had nurtured the criminals and the mafia? The mafia whose name is emerging in the Prayagraj incident, is it not true that the Samajwadi Party had made him an MP.”

“He was a mafia nurtured by the SP. Our government is working to break its back. We will decimate (Mitti me mila denge) them,” Adityanath said.
Further attacking the Samajwadi Party, Adityanath said, “They are the mentors of criminals, and they have been doing it continuously. Crime flows in their veins. They have learnt nothing except crime. The entire state knows about this, and today they are giving justification.”
“The mafia leader who had perpetrated this act yesterday, is out of Uttar Pradesh, and became MLA and MP because of the assistance of the Samajwadi Party. Is it not true that in 1996, that mafia leader became a MLA from Allahabad West seat. In 2004, these people made him the Lok Sabha MP. Our government will finish them off, he said.
Referring to the address by UP Governor Anandiben Patel, Adityanath said, “People who could not give respect to a woman Governor in the House, how can they give respect to women?”
He also took a jibe at the SP while referring to SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav’s “boys commit mistakes” quote.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 25, 2023
Whatever Akhilesh Yadav said in Assembly is bundle of lies’, says UP DyCM Pathak

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Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak on Thursday said the protest by Samajwadi Party MLAs during the governor’s address in the Assembly was condemnable, asserting that party chief Akhilesh Yadav’s remarks in the House were nothing but a “bundle of lies”.
Pathak said he had hoped that Yadav would apologise for the “hooliganism” of his party legislators during his speech in the House.
We heard the Leader of Opposition for long and we were thinking that he would apologise after seeing the hooliganism of the Samajwadis at the time of the governor’s address, he said.
Pathak said he condemns the way the SP members created a ruckus during the address in the House.
He said whatever the SP chief said on the governor’s address is a “bundle of lies” and there is no truth in it.
Yadav on Thursday termed Governor Anandiben Patel’s address in the House as “cut and paste speech” and alleged that the schemes mentioned have not been implemented on the ground.
The budget session of the Uttar Pradesh Legislature began on a stormy note on Monday with the governor reading out the address amid sloganeering by the opposition.
Pathak, participating on a discussion on the governor’s address, praised senior SP member Shivpal Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav, though.

He said the leader of the opposition was a gentleman but some people around him mislead him.
The deputy chief minister listed the achievements of the BJP government, while pointing out the shortcomings of the previous SP dispensation.
He also talked about the recent Global Investors Summit and its success to attract investors.
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February 23, 2023
‘UP Mein Jhuthe Case Ki Bahar Ba’: Akhilesh on Yogi govt’s notice to singer

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Lucknow: Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday improvised on the viral song ‘UP Mein Ka Ba’ to target the Yogi Adityanath government over a notice sent by the state police to the singer, Neha Singh Rathore.
Taking to Twitter, the Samajwadi Party chief said, “UP Mein Ka Ba (What’s with UP?), UP Mein Jhuthe Case ki Bahar Ba (there are false cases in UP), UP Mein Garib-Kisan Behaal Ba (poor farmers in UP are in dire straits), UP Mein Pichde-Dalit Par Prahar Ba (there is an attack on the backward class people and Dalits in UP), UP Mein Karobar Ka Bantadhaar Ba (there is closure of businesses and industries in UP), UP Mein Bhrashtachaar Hi Bhrashtachaar Ba (there is corruption and more corruption in UP),
UP Mein Bin Kaam Ks Bas Prachar Ba (there are false claims and no work in UP), UP Mein Agle Chunaav Ka Intezaar Ba (UP is awaiting the next elections), UP Mein Agli Baar Bhajpa Bahar Ba (the BJP will be voted out next time in UP),” the Samajwadi Party chief said.
The SP chief’s swipe came in the wake of the UP government sending a notice to ‘UP Mein Ka Ba’-fame singer for allegedly inciting hatred among the public through her music video.
The notice was served on Neha in the wake of the video ‘UP Mein Ka Ba- Season 2’, which the singer uploaded on her Twitter and YouTube pages.
A team from Kanpur police reached Neha Singh’s residence in Kanpur (rural) on Tuesday night and served a notice under Section 160 of the Code of Criminal procedure (CrPC).
The police, through the notice, sought the singer’s clarifications on a number of questions on the video that went viral on social media.
The police have asked her to clarify if she features in the video, and, if yes, whether it was uoloaded by her or someone else. The sleuths have further sought to know if the YouTube channel and the Twitter account on which the video in question was posted belong to the singer.

The police have also asked her to explain if the lyrics are hers, and if yes, is she willing to stand by her words. “If you have not written the lyrics, then did the lyricist take your permission?” the notice read.
The police also asked if she is mindful of the adverse social impact of her music video.
The UP Police asked the singer to reply to the notice within three days, failing which she will be booked under relevant sections of the IPC and CrPC.
“This song has created enmity and tension in society, and you are legally bound to make your stand clear on the issue. S, you are required to file your reply within three days of receiving the notice,” the notice read further.
“If your reply is not found satisfactory, then a case will be registered under the relevant sections of IPC and CRPC, and proper legal investigation will be carried out,” it added.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 22, 2023