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Akhilesh Yadav not to contest next Uttar

Pradesh assembly polls
PTI / Updated: Nov 1, 2021, 14:19 IST

Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav

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NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party supremo

Akhilesh Yadav on Monday said he will not contest

the coming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections
himself even as he announced that an alliance
between his party and the Rashtriya Lok Dal is
now final.

Yadav also said his uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav, who

broke away from the SP to form the Pragatisheel
Samajwadi party Lohia (PSPL) will get the “due
honour” from his party.

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"Our alliance with the RLD is final. Seat-sharing is

to be finalised," he told PTI in an interview.

The RLD enjoys support among farmers of

Western Uttar Pradesh and is on the same page
with the SP on the issue of opposing the Centre's
three farm laws.

The SP has already announced an alliance with

Om Prakash Rajbhar's Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj
Party (SPSP).

Yadav, who is an SP MP from Azamgarh and

regarded as the CM face of his party, said, "I will
not be contesting the assembly election myself".

The SP supremo, who was a Member of Legislative

Council (MLC) when he served as chief minister of
Uttar Pradesh from 2012-2017, did not give any
reason for the decision.

However, later Yadav said a final decision on his

contesting the polls will be taken by the party.

On whether he has held any talks with the AIMIM

or Mamata Banerjee's TMC for the state polls, he
said there have been no discussions with them.

Terming his party's tie up with the SBSP as a

natural alliance, Yadav said people in eastern Uttar
Pradesh have accepted it and it will ensure the
BJP's defeat.

On the poll promises made by the SBSP to provide

free electricity and RLD of providing over one
crore jobs, Yadav said every party has its agenda .

"We all raise issues of farmers, employment,

common man. Everyone is releasing their
manifesto. If voted to power, our government will
try to accommodate them and prepare a
common minimum programme," he said

Asked about the joining of Congress leaders and

also of a BJP and BSP MLA in his party, he
asserted, "The joining will continue. It shows that
people are seeing the SP as an alternative to the
BJP, which only spread lies and deceit people with
promises."

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He said that people of the state have not forgotten

the pain and treatment meted to them during the
peak of Covid and added that maximum cases
were lodged against his party workers during the
pandemic for helping people.

"SP workers were on the street during Covid peak.

We provided all necessary help to people when
government was missing from action and left
people on their own to survive. Instead of helping,
maximum number of cases were lodged against
SP workers during the pandemic but it did not
deter them," he said.

Countering the "tall claims of BJP of helping

people", Yadav said, "Why not a single case was
filed against BJP workers during Covid. As our
workers were out for help, cases were lodged
against them."

He was asked about Union Home Minister Amit

Shah's recent remark as to where was the SP
supremo during the Covid period.

Lashing out at Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath,

Yadav accused him of ruining the state.
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"By saying that it has fulfilled 90 per cent promises

of its 'Sankalp Patra' (manifesto), the BJP is only
lying," he charged.

About the government's move to provide tablets

or smart phones to students, the former Uttar
Pradesh chief minister said, "What it was doing for
the past over four-and-a-half years? This shows
their intention."

The Samajwadi supremo said people are facing

inflation and youth are unemployed.

People faced hardships during Covid peak and

lost their near and dear ones for lack of treatment,
non availability of beds, and oxygen and now they
will think twice before voting for the BJP, he
asserted.

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"The SP is the only party that can face BJP and

stand tall before them in the interest of people.
Farmers are also with the SP. This time there will
be a change in the state and people of the state
have made up their minds," he said.

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