Lok Sabha elections | Akhilesh Yadav predicts a clean sweep of INDIA bloc in Uttar Pradesh
The Hindu
Lok Sabha elections 2024: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav predicts a clean sweep of the BJP from Ghaziabad to Ghazipur in upcoming elections.
Asserting that "winds of change" are blowing from western Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said there will be an INDIA bloc "clean sweep" from Ghaziabad to Ghazipur.
Mr. Yadav made the remarks during a joint press conference with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on April 17, their first during the Lok Sabha election cycle.
"The first phase of the Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh are going to be held. The winds that are blowing from the west are going to change the environment of the whole of Uttar Pradesh and the country," Mr. Yadav said.
"Today we are sitting in Ghaziabad. There will be a clean sweep of the INDIA bloc over the BJP from Ghaziabad to Ghazipur," the Samajwadi Party chief said.
He claimed that farmers are distressed as all the BJP's promises and claims have turned out to be a "big lie". Neither have farmers' incomes doubled nor youngsters got jobs, he said.
"Their (BJP) balloon of morality has burst. The electoral bonds issue has exposed them. The BJP has become a godown of the corrupt. They are not only taking in the corrupt but also their earnings," Mr. Yadav alleged.
“They (BJP) made claims of ‘double engine’ [government at the Centre and State], look at their hoardings now, their candidates are missing and only a single person is there. After the polls, that person on the hoardings will also disappear,” he said in an apparent swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "They have only one slogan to lie and loot. Lying has become their identity," he added.
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