Hindustan Times (Lucknow)

SP distributi­ng rations & food, offering medical aid to needy

- HT Correspond­ent letters@htlive.com

Samajwadi Party (SP) activists in small towns and rural areas have started distributi­ng ‘Samajwadi ration’ and ‘Samajwadi bhojan’ (food) through ‘Samajwadi kitchens’. They are also offering medical aid across the state, including free ambulance services in some places, according to a party statement issued on Thursday. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said while the BJP was spreading confusion and lies among people during Covid times and no relief work was visible. In such a situation, the SP cadre was busy helping people state-wide. Akhilesh said that the SP leaders and workers were helping people with rations, cooked food, medicines and medical tools. In some places they were even running free ambulance service. He said that SP MLC Rajpal Kashyap was distributi­ng Samajwadi ration and food packets among the needy at different places, while former SP candidate from Lucknow’s Sarojini Nagar assembly constituen­cy Anurag Yadav had provided a consignmen­t of oxygen, oximeters, nebulisers, thermomete­rs, glucometer­s, masks, sanitizers and medical kits etc to the KGMU administra­tion.

He said that in Meerut, SP district president Chaudhary Rajpal Singh and others were running an ambulance services. In many places, the SP volunteers were giving food to patients and their relatives outside hospitals. Samajwadi kitchens were running in Maharajgan­j, Varanasi, Rae Bareli, Lucknow, Kannauj, Sidharthna­gar, Hamirpur and other places.

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