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BJP wickets falling, party couldn’t fathom SP’s strategy: Akhilesh Yadav

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Updated: January 14th, 2022, 22:40 IST
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Former UP minister Swami Prasad Maurya and others join the Samajwadi Party in presence of party president Akhilesh Yadav PTI photo

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Lucknow: Akhilesh Yadav taunted Friday the BJP for losing ‘one wicket after the other’. He said that the BJP has failed to fathom the strategy of the Samajwadi Party (SP). Akhilesh Yadav made the comments while inducting two ministers and six other MLAs who recently deserted the ruling alliance into his Samajwadi Party.

Apart from the six BJP MLAs, a legislator from BJP ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) also joined the SP at a large public meeting in the compound of the party office here. The gathering was held in defiance of Covid-19 norms that led to the registration of a case.

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The Election Commission has banned election meetings till January 15. In apparent deference to the EC order, the meeting was called a ‘virtual rally’ and a ‘press conference’, going by the banner behind the dais.

“The BJP wickets are falling one after the other. Our ‘baba’ CM doesn’t know how to play cricket. Even if he knew, he has dropped the catch,” Akhilesh commented on Yogi Adityanath, the face of the ruling party in the UP polls.

Akhilesh also mocked the chief minister over his ‘80 versus 20’ remark. He suggested that Adityanath should get himself a math teacher.

The CM had recently said 80 per cent of the voters will be on the BJP’s side and the remaining 20 per cent against it in next month’s assembly polls. It was a jibe that many thought alluded to the Muslim proportion of the population in the Uttar Pradesh. The SP president said the real proportion of those with the two rivals was just the opposite.

And after the entry of Swami Prasad Maurya and the others in the SP, the BJP would lose even this 20 per cent, Akhilesh said after conferring the party membership to the OBC leader who resigned from the Adityanath cabinet earlier this week.

Maurya too referred to the 80-20 remark. “Now it will be 15 and 85. Eighty-five is ours, there will be divisions in the 15 as well,” he said. He also vowed to ‘finish’ the BJP.

Using wrestling terms, the new entrant challenged BJP leaders to try whatever move they wanted. “I will ground you into the earth. I will finish the Bharatiya Janata Party as the time has come to rid Uttar Pradesh of your oppression,” Maurya asserted.

Maurya was the first to desert the BJP, and the move was followed by similar announcement by others — mostly leaders from the Other Backward Classes (OBC) who claimed that the ruling party had ignored their community.

Apart from Maurya, his former cabinet colleague Dharam Singh Saini and five other BJP MLAs joined the SP. They are Bhagwati Sagar (from Bilhaur in Kanpur), Roshanlal Verma (Tilhar in Shahjahanpur), Vinay Shakya (Bidhuna in Auraiya), Brajesh Prajapati (Tindwari in Bahraich) and Mukesh Verma (Shikohabad in Firozabad).

Amar Singh, an MLA who represented BJP ally Apna Dal (Sonelal), also joined the opposition party. Several district and block-level politicians, aligned to different parties, also switched sides at the event.

But Dara Singh Chauhan, who too had quit the UP Cabinet, was absent. Sources said he is likely to join the SP on Sunday.

Red turbans were placed on the heads of the new SP members on the dais, where Maurya sat centre stage.

Akhilesh pooh-poohed the BJP claim of winning three-fourths of the seats in the 403-member UP House. “They meant they will win three or four seats,” he said.

“Baba CM has failed. No matter how many people come from Delhi, he is not going to pass the exams,” Akhislesh said, referring to the top BJP leaders who have campaigned in UP. He said the BJP has scored a hit wicket and its leaders are unable to fathom the SP strategy. “Had they known the strategy, they would have started damage control,” the SP chief said.

 

Tags: Akhilesh YadavBJPpollsSamajwadi PartySwami Prasad MauryaUttar PradeshYogi Adityanath
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