PHULPUR: On the brink of forging a doubtlessly ambitious alliance with a former rival in Uttar Pradesh earlier than 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief and former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday mentioned that BJP's worst nightmares have come true following unequivocal support from BSP within the March 11 bypolls.
A top voltage marketing campaign has rocked Phulpur and Gorakhpur that can elect their MPs on March 11, following exit by way of UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath and Keshav Prasad Maurya.
Both Maurya and Yogi had give up their Lok Sabha seats when they took fee in UP assembly in 2017.
"We have never played caste politics. BJP began this in UP by making an OBC (Maurya) their party president first and projecting him as a CM, then suddenly bringing a thakur (Yogi) as chief minister and also ensuring space for a Brahmin as another deputy chief minister. Now we have changed the tide by bringing BSP and SP together, BJP's worst fears have come true. They are so worried that they are resorting to using obscene terms for Mayawati ji, neta ji (Mulayam Singh Yadav) and me," mentioned Akhilesh, as he gathered a framed photograph of a Dalit icon and writer of Indian Constitution, Bhim Rao Ambedkar.
While both BJP (Kaushalendra Patel) and SP (Nagendra Patel) have fielded a Kurmi Patel OBC candidate in Phulpur, Congress has fielded a Brahmin (Manish Mishra). BSP isn't contesting the bypoll. The SP supremo, on the other hand, mentioned that he was thankful to the BJP to have taught a lesson in social engineering early in his existence. He spoke to TOI all through a four-hour rath yatra in Phulpur and later all through a flight to Lucknow.
The three-time former MP mentioned that he does now not have any regrets over the failure of Congress-SP alliance within the 2017 UP polls even though his party slumped to some of the lowest tallies of 47 seats. While disclosing that he sensed a transformation in behaviour of Congress straight away after a moderate good fortune in Gujarat assembly polls in 2017 where the party decreased the BJP to a two-digit tally of 99 seats, he mentioned he didn't harbour in poor health emotions in opposition to Rahul Gandhi or his group.
"I agree we failed to click as an alliance. After all, my 100 probables had to forego their individual political career. But I felt sad that before Gujarat elections, Congress was more accommodating but later became circumspect over any alliance with us. Still I have no ill will towards them," he mentioned. Akhilesh insisted that he would need to omit the 2017 filial stress as a satisfactory incident and as a substitute use his 'optimistic' traits, inherited from his father.
"If you look at my conduct today, it beams positivity. I think of the way I brought laptops to young students, Metro to Lucknow, expressway, cricket stadia, helipads and business centres. I know that the BJP fomented tension in our family. But since I have had the privilege of my icon and mentor neta ji (Mulayam Yadav), we have reconciled differences. I learn more from him than reading books on other Socialist leaders," mentioned Akhilesh.
"I look at an opportunity to rebuild my team, giving them a sense of belongingness. To take corrective steps, like we took action against Atiq Ahmad (now contesting as an independent candidate from Phulpur). I realised our cadre is happy. But what has happened is that during BJP rule, a mobile phone and knives have been found in the Deoria jail where Atiq is lodged," he added.
Akhilesh agreed that the hostilities between events have turn out to be sharper because of acerbic speeches within the contemporary previous.
"Contributing factors of political contests have changed from scams, economic policies, employment and funding patterns to polemic and hate speeches built around Hindus and Muslims and castes. A common term to describe electioneering these days is narrative. And BJP has championed that cause. When my father was chief minister, he would contest against the Congress. There was a time neta ji too had taken help from the BSP to stop the communal surge of 1992. That time has come back again. Which is why the BSP and SP have kept aside their differences," he mentioned.
A top voltage marketing campaign has rocked Phulpur and Gorakhpur that can elect their MPs on March 11, following exit by way of UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath and Keshav Prasad Maurya.
Both Maurya and Yogi had give up their Lok Sabha seats when they took fee in UP assembly in 2017.
"We have never played caste politics. BJP began this in UP by making an OBC (Maurya) their party president first and projecting him as a CM, then suddenly bringing a thakur (Yogi) as chief minister and also ensuring space for a Brahmin as another deputy chief minister. Now we have changed the tide by bringing BSP and SP together, BJP's worst fears have come true. They are so worried that they are resorting to using obscene terms for Mayawati ji, neta ji (Mulayam Singh Yadav) and me," mentioned Akhilesh, as he gathered a framed photograph of a Dalit icon and writer of Indian Constitution, Bhim Rao Ambedkar.
While both BJP (Kaushalendra Patel) and SP (Nagendra Patel) have fielded a Kurmi Patel OBC candidate in Phulpur, Congress has fielded a Brahmin (Manish Mishra). BSP isn't contesting the bypoll. The SP supremo, on the other hand, mentioned that he was thankful to the BJP to have taught a lesson in social engineering early in his existence. He spoke to TOI all through a four-hour rath yatra in Phulpur and later all through a flight to Lucknow.
The three-time former MP mentioned that he does now not have any regrets over the failure of Congress-SP alliance within the 2017 UP polls even though his party slumped to some of the lowest tallies of 47 seats. While disclosing that he sensed a transformation in behaviour of Congress straight away after a moderate good fortune in Gujarat assembly polls in 2017 where the party decreased the BJP to a two-digit tally of 99 seats, he mentioned he didn't harbour in poor health emotions in opposition to Rahul Gandhi or his group.
"I agree we failed to click as an alliance. After all, my 100 probables had to forego their individual political career. But I felt sad that before Gujarat elections, Congress was more accommodating but later became circumspect over any alliance with us. Still I have no ill will towards them," he mentioned. Akhilesh insisted that he would need to omit the 2017 filial stress as a satisfactory incident and as a substitute use his 'optimistic' traits, inherited from his father.
"If you look at my conduct today, it beams positivity. I think of the way I brought laptops to young students, Metro to Lucknow, expressway, cricket stadia, helipads and business centres. I know that the BJP fomented tension in our family. But since I have had the privilege of my icon and mentor neta ji (Mulayam Yadav), we have reconciled differences. I learn more from him than reading books on other Socialist leaders," mentioned Akhilesh.
"I look at an opportunity to rebuild my team, giving them a sense of belongingness. To take corrective steps, like we took action against Atiq Ahmad (now contesting as an independent candidate from Phulpur). I realised our cadre is happy. But what has happened is that during BJP rule, a mobile phone and knives have been found in the Deoria jail where Atiq is lodged," he added.
Akhilesh agreed that the hostilities between events have turn out to be sharper because of acerbic speeches within the contemporary previous.
"Contributing factors of political contests have changed from scams, economic policies, employment and funding patterns to polemic and hate speeches built around Hindus and Muslims and castes. A common term to describe electioneering these days is narrative. And BJP has championed that cause. When my father was chief minister, he would contest against the Congress. There was a time neta ji too had taken help from the BSP to stop the communal surge of 1992. That time has come back again. Which is why the BSP and SP have kept aside their differences," he mentioned.
BJP's worst fears have come true with BSP-SP tie-up: Akhilesh Yadav
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