SP executive resolves to win 2022 assembly polls with ‘brute majority’
LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party (SP) national executive, at a meeting here on Saturday, called upon the party to displace the BJP government with ‘a brute majority’ in the 2022 UP assembly elections. This was the first meeting of the party’s national executive after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Symbolising the 2022 polls, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav announced that on the 22nd day of every month, till the notification of the elections, party workers will hold statewide demonstrations or cycle yatras as part of its public outreach programme.
“These demonstrations will be held up to the tehsil level to expose the BJP government and remind the people of the development works done by the previous SP government,” said SP state spokesperson Rajendra ChaudSeveral hary.
The executive also decided that on March 23, the birth anniversary of party icon and socialist leader Dr Ram Manohar Lohia, the party youth and leaders will ride bicycles in a statewide campaign to whip up support for the party. The SP’s national executive has 66 members. “Over two dozen members attended the meeting and it passed the political and economic resolution,” said Chaudhary.
executive members -who live outside Uttar Pradesh or were outside the state -- did not reach Lucknow for the meeting following advisories over the coronavirus outbreak. “Because of coronavirus, I did not leave Mumbai,” said Abu Asim Azmi, an executive committee member and SP MLA in Maharashtra. However, Jaya Bachchan, an SP Rajya Sabha member, attended it.
Akhilesh presided over the meeting. SP vice president Kiranmoy Nanda and general secretary Ramgopal Yadav, Ramjilal Suman, Kamal Akhtar, Abhishek Mishra, Ahmed Hasan and Naresh Uttam Patel were among other prominent members who attended it. “Political, social and economic resolutions were passed and a strategy was prepared to corner the Narendra Modi government at the centre and Yogi Adityanath government in the state,” Chaudhary said.