BJP will be wiped out in UP in Assembly polls: Akhilesh Yadav

Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday claimed that the BJP, which has snatched the jobs of youngsters, will be wiped out from Uttar Pradesh in next year's Assembly polls. Addressing a public meeting after distributing laptops to meritorious students  in his Parliamentary constituency Azamgarh, Yadav said, BJP will be wiped out because these people have wiped away your jobs, Charging the BJP government with changing the names of projects and taking credit for works done by his government, the former chief minister enumerated the shortcomings in the Purvanchal Expressway project being carried out by it in the area.Referring to the steep rise in fuel prices in the country, he said the BJP-led government at the Centre is indicating that instead of motorcycles, people should ride bicycles, which need neither diesel nor petrol.

BJP first distributed free cylinders and then increased the LPG prices. On the recent Lakhimpur violence, Yadav said "farmers demanding their rights were crushed under the wheels of vehicles and the Union minister of state for home crushed the law". "If the BJP comes to power again, it will crush the Constitution written by Bhim Rao Ambedkar, so it has to be wiped out from the state in 2022," he added. The BJP manifesto for the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls had stated that the students opting for further studies will be given laptops and tablet computers, along with free data, and Wi-Fi connections will be installed in those institutions, Yadav said."The BJP had written in the manifesto that they will give laptops to the children, but those are not traceable, he said.