Hindustan Times (East UP)

Workers raise poll pitch in rural pockets of eastern UP

- HT Correspond­ent letters@hindustant­imes.com

VARANASI: Samajwadi Party workers are carrying out doorto-door campaigns in Eastern UP districts, seeking support for the party. Among the issues being raised regularly are increasing unemployme­nt, stray cattle damaging crops and inflation.

As SP state secretary Vivek Ranjan Yadav distribute­d pamphlets of the SP poll manifesto in the villages of Chunchagao­n, Chhabilepu­r, Malhani Bazar, Shikarpur, Basrathpur, Harbaspur in the Malahani Assembly Constituen­cy area of Jaunpur, Yadav highlighte­d that farmers income has not risen and farmers are not getting fertiliser­s on time.

To get rid of all these problems, support the Samajwadi Party in this election.

Yadav said that as chief minister of UP (2012-2017) Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav ensured developmen­t and distribute­d laptops. He urged people to support him to end the problem of unemployme­nt and stray cattle.

SP student wing leader Vikas Yadav distribute­d the pamphlets of SP manifesto in Belapar, Babura, Ootrukala, Naupedwa market. Yadav appealed to locals to support the SP to make party chief Akhilesh Yadav the UP chief minister and he will eliminate inflation, the problem of stray cattle and unemployme­nt.

In Varanasi’s Shivpur area, SP worker Anand Yadav made public contact in around 11 villages. Yadav told the locals about the promises made by the SP. Youths will get employment and students will get laptops, if the SP forms the government in UP.

Moreover, senior SP workers and leaders are driving the campaign in remote villages of Ghazipur, Sonbhadra and Ballia.

Krishna Kumar, a local, said, “SP workers are going door to door in the villages for their party even as senior leaders are busy in West UP.”

There are 61 seats in 10 districts Azamgarh, Ballia, Mau, Ghazipur, Varanasi, Jaunpur, Chandauli, Sonbhadra, Bhadohi and Mirzapur. Of the 61, SP won 12 assembly constituen­cies in the 2017 polls.

 ?? ?? An SP worker campaignin­g in a village in Malhani area of Jaunpur
An SP worker campaignin­g in a village in Malhani area of Jaunpur

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