Voters saying ‘400 haar’ to BJP slogan of ‘400 paar’: Akhilesh
Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Monday alleged that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is attempting to erode the spirit of brotherhood among people in India and western U.P. in particular. Addressing an election rally in Muzaffarnagar, he asked voters to not fall for empty rhetoric but vote on fundamental issues concerning the common people such as jobs and social security.
“Our country is of GangaJamuni culture, these people of the BJP are working to destroy the brotherhood of India and western U.P. Each of their decisions is against the public,” he
said, illustrating by way of example the Agniveer scheme that “in a single day changed the law so that in future there will be no permanent jobs.
In Muzaffarnagar, SP candidate Harendra Malik is locked in a threeway battle with Union Minister Sanjeev Balyan of the BJP and Dara Singh Prajapati of the Bahujan Samaj Party in the first phase of poll on April 19.
Ridiculing the BJP’s slogan of ‘400 paar’ (crossing 400 seats), the SP chief said voters from Saharanpur to Meerut are chanting ‘400 haar’ (defeat in 400 seats) instead. “This government, which is giving the slogan of crossing 400, does not know that the slogan of ‘400 haar’ is being raised in Muzaffarnagar, Kairana, Meerut, Bijnor, Nagina, Saharanpur and other places. If the farmers and youth stand against the government, the wind from the west will sweep away the BJP,” he said.
Highlighting farming woes in this agrarian belt, the former CM and current Leader of the Opposition alleged that one lakh farmers ended their lives under the BJP dispensation.