Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday said that if the “third front” comes to power in Bihar, the “U.P. model” would be replicated in Bihar.
He was addressing party workers and alliance partners at the Sakriya Karyakarta Sammelan Sah Milan Samaroh in Patna.
He said the media was not highlighting the good work done by the Samajwadi Party government in U.P., “instead they were focusing only on crime and rape.”
The Samajwadi Party has formed a “third front” with six parties to take on the Nitish-Lalu led grand alliance and the BJP-led NDA block in the Bihar poll.
Several smaller parties such as the NCP, Jan Adhikar Party of Pappu Yadav, Samras Samaj party of Nagmani, P.A. Sangma-led Nationalist People’s Party and socialist leader Devendra Prasad Yadav-led Samajwadi Janata Party have joined hands with the Samajwadi Party to offer a third alternative.
“The U.P. CM and our party leader, Akhilesh Yadav, had come to Bihar to formalise the third front and meet the alliance partners and party workers,” State SP chief Ram Chandra Singh Yadav told The Hindu .
‘Modi selling dreams’The Chief Minister said that today, everything was about marketing and branding and “people have been selling only dreams. And, media has been propagating only this…for the last four years, the Samajwadi Party has done several works taking socialism to the ground but media has been ignoring this and looking out for crime and rape stories.”
He also took on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “selling dreams” to the people of Nepal on his recent visit there but “today after the promulgation of the Constitution, there is great pessimism among the people living in border areas.”
“He [Mr. Modi] had also promised to secure the country’s boundaries and end Naxalism but still our soldiers are martyred on the border and Naxalism has not been eliminated,” said Mr. Yadav said.
Taking Mr. Modi on his “acche din” slogan, the U.P. CM said the slogan was not that of a party but of a marketing company. “ Had that been the party’s slogan, then good days would have definitely come…good days did not come to Uttar Pradesh and I wonder if it came to Bihar,” said Mr. Yadav.
