BJP is poaching MLCs, doing ‘patharbaazi’, says Akhilesh
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party (SP) national president and former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said ‘bandookbaaz (gun-totters)’ and ‘patharbaaz (stone-pelters)’were active in BJP-ruled UP and Gujarat.
The SP chief was talking to reporters on the sidelines of an event that his party held to pay tribute to the late Janeshwar Mishra, who was a prominent SP leader.
“How can you stop stone-pelters? It is their job to throw stones (the reference was to stone-pelting on Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s car in Gujarat). And in UP those people are resorting to kind of stonepelting on Samajwadis (socialists) by poaching MLCs,” said Akhilesh after garlanding the statue of Mishra at the Janeshwar Mishra Park.
“But the people will give an apt reply to patharbaaz,” he said.
Akhilesh said the Samajwadi Party will continue to struggle for the poor, uprooting evils in the society.
The SP will be go to the public on August 9 through its ‘Desh bachao, Desh Banao (Save the country, build the country)’ campaign to rescue the country from the clutches of communal forces.”
Akhilesh also said he would participate in an event in memory of Kargil martyrs in Azamgarh on August 30.
On the issue of reservation in jobs, Akhilesh said the government should not hurt any community.
“Each community should be given reservation proportionate to its population. The BJP government had claimed that it freed 5,000 acre of land from the clutches of land-mafia. I would say the government should also reveal the names of the land mafiosi.”