‘India will go back 15 years if BJP wins LS polls’
Samajwadi Party MP Dimple Yadav has said India will go back 15 years if the BJP wins the Lok Sabha polls, accusing the party of practising “divisive politics” to divert attention from real issues.
In an exclusive interview with PTI, Dimple Yadav, who is aiming to carry forward the legacy of her father-in-law and SP patriarch late Mulayam Singh Yadav by retaining the Mainpuri seat, asserted that the people are going to vote for change this time.
People have understood the ‘bantware ki rajneeti’ or divisive politics of the BJP. It creates dierences between different sections of society and indulges in vote bank politics, she said.
“They incite people on caste lines, play with their sentiments and divert attention from core issues,” Dimple Yadav, the wife of SP president Akhilesh Yadav said.
During Dimple Yadav’s filing of nomination papers from Mainpuri, a seat that she has been representing since 2022, the Yadav family unity was on display, as, besides Akhilesh
Yadav, his uncles Ramgoapal Yadav and Shivpal Yadav accompanied her.
While the BJP government at the Centre is misusing institutions like the Enforcement Directorate, Central Bureau of Investigation, and the Income Tax Department, at the district level in Uttar Pradesh, the administration is harassing people, she alleged.
“People are seeing where they (BJP) are taking the country and everyone knows India’s position in malnutrition and starvation in global rankings... If they (BJP) win, the country will go back 15 years,” she said. This election is to save the future of the country as the Constitution is under threat, she added.