PTI, LUCKNOW: The BJP may have wrested an extra seat in the recent Rajya Sabha polls but the victory will backfire on the saffron party as its “anti-Dalit face stood exposed” while the SP-BSP unity got strengthened, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav claimed today.
In an interview to PTI, Akhilesh Yadav also said his wife Dimple Yadav may not contest the next Lok Sabha elections to blunt the nepotism charge that political opponents hurl at Samajwadi Party (SP), which he leads. Dimple Yadav is currently the Lok Sabha MP from Kannauj.
The SP chief also alleged that law and order had collapsed during the present dispensation in UP while “political encounters” were being staged. Those involved will have to face a probe sooner or later, he warned.
The SP will exploit to the hilt “the BJP’s conspiracy against a Dalit” during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said today.
He was referring to BJP nominee Anil Agrawal edging out BSP’s Bhimrao Ambedkar in a nail-biting contest earlier this week.
“The victory of the BJP on the ninth seat, contested by the saffron party with the help of money power, has given the SP an opportunity to expose the communal outfit’s anti-Dalit face. Because of the conspiracy hatched by the BJP against a Dalit getting elected, SP-BSP unity has got strengthened all the more for the (2019) Lok Sabha polls,” Akhilesh Yadav alleged.
The real character of the BJP, which “misused money and power against the poor”, stood exposed in the recent Rajya Sabha polls, he claimed.
