Lashing out at BJP president Amit Shah for claiming that his party would rule the country for the next 50 years, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday dubbed the BJP “arrogant” and asked if the party wanted to “murder” the democratic right of people to elect a government.
Mr. Yadav said “murder of the media and constitutional institutions and cases of mob lynching” had already taken place under the BJP government.
He said the people were waiting to unleash their anger on the BJP, a party he described as a “tyrant”. “Just watch, the people will give their reply to the BJP much before the next 50 weeks,” Mr. Yadav tweeted.
He also said that the BJP's claim of ruling for the next 50 years stemmed from its “full confidence in their EVM strategy, that is, Election Via Mischief”.
While Mr. Yadav himself did not participate in Monday’s Congress-led ‘Bharat Bandh’, protest, the SP held demonstrations at every district headquarters and handed over
applications to the administration over the issue of fuel price hike. Targetting the BJP, Mr. Yadav said the “people have now started to feel that the BJP has opened up a laboratory to harass and cause them distress”.
He counted demonetisation, Goods and Services Tax, atrocities against Dalits, farmers, women and the youth, inflation, unemployment, petrol-diesel price hike, dealings with the rich as some of the BJP’s “anti-people exploits”.
”The BJP and its government are so arrogant that on a day when many parties are holding demonstrations and dharnas, they hiked the price of diesel and petrol by a few paise at some places. The BJP people can even go to the extent to say that
inflation brings prosperity,” said Mr. Yadav, after paying tribute to former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Govind Ballabh Pant on his birth anniversary.
