Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has reiterated his resolve to oppose the Citizenship (Amendment) Act saying his party is against the divisive law as well as National Population Register (NPR) and National Register of Citizens (NRC).
“The members of the Samajwadi Party will not fill NPR forms. We want to talk only about work,” he said.
“Instead of NPR and NRC, the government should go for caste-based census to ascertain the share of each caste in the total population of India. Caste-based census is the lasting solution to the social conflict based on caste and religion,” he said.
Yadav also confirmed that his party will not form any political alliance with the Congress or any other political party for the 2022 UP Assembly elections.
“We will form the government in 2022 on the basis of our own strength. We may consider some political adjustments to reach the magic figure of majority on the floor of the assembly,’’ he added.
He claimed that the SP will form the next government on the strength of the development work done during the previous regime (2012-17).
Slamming the Congress for putting posters of ‘missing MP’ in his Lok Sabha constituency (Azamgarh), the former Chief Minister said: “Congress is an old hand in conducting smear campaign against its rivals and it was their handiwork. People of Azamgarh are firmly behind me and my party and I will soon visit the constituency’’.
“I wish to congratulate the people of Delhi who rejected the provocative statements of BJP leaders like ‘Goli maaro’ and voting for a party that had performed and delivered to the people as per promises made in the run-up to the 2015 Delhi Assembly elections,” the SP chief said while speaking at a programme in Lucknow on Saturday.
“What was witnessed in Delhi Assembly elections this February will be repeated in Uttar Pradesh in 2022. The Samajwadi Party’s ‘cycle’ will take along all sections of the society and will not resort to gimmicks like seeking the blessings of deities. We have confidence in our performance and in people, and we will have enough people’s support to form the government in 2022’’, the SP chief claimed.
“We will go to the polls and place the record of our performance before the people. The BJP has nothing concrete to showcase as their achievement so they always resort to their traditional politics of dividing people on the lines of caste and religion,” Akhilesh said, adding: “Anybody who has travelled on Lucknow-Agra Expressway will certainly vote for the Samajwadi Party’’.
Dismissing the claims of development works done by the Yogi Adityanath government, the former Chief Minister said: “The investor summit held in February 2018 was a damp squib with no benefit to the people of UP. The government claims to have signed MoUs worth over Rs 4.5 lakh crore but not a single penny has been seen on the ground’’.
He said the maximum number of MoUs was signed for setting up renewable energy or solar plants, and not a single plant has been set up so far.
