SP manifesto likely to promise free electricity: Akhilesh
KANPUR : Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday promised that consumers may be offered free electricity, if his party was voted to power in next year’s UP assembly elections. “Electricity will be much cheaper for sure and we may also announce free power to all consumers in the party manifesto,” he said at a public meeting in Kannauj, taking a leaf out of the Aam Admi Party’s (AAP) manifesto.
On his arrival, the SP chief unveiled the statue of former party MLA Kaptan Singh Yadav and addressed a well attended gathering in Gursahaigunj.
After the 2019 LS elections, this was Akhilesh Yadav’s first public meeting in his stronghold. His wife Dimple Yadav had lost to BJP’s Subrat Pathak.
Hitting out at the BJP government, Yadav called it a party of liars, which had failed to protect the rights of farmers. “Women are most unsafe in Uttar Pradesh, which has a dubious distinction of reporting the maximum number of custodial deaths in the country,” he said.
He mentioned the case of Kanpur realtor, Manish Gupta, who was found dead following a police raid at a Gorakhpur hotel where he was staying with two friends from Gurugram, and added that “seers were not safe in UP where they were being murdered.” Yadav said the BJP government was vindictive and had senior party leader Azam Khan in jail on fake charges. “The SP government would withdraw all the cases filed against SP workers and leaders,” he added. SP state president Naresh Uttam Patel and former MP from Mainpuri Tej Pratap Yadav were with Akhilesh Yadav during the public meeting.