Samajwadi party launched a campaign on the social media against the BJP

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The opposition Samajwadi party launched a campaign on the social media against the BJP hours before the launch of 81 investment projects worth more than Rs 60,000 crore by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Sunday.

The SP took to Twitter to counter the BJP by reminding it of the 10 points in its “Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra” (2017 assembly manifesto) with a background music “tumhara intezaar hai (waiting for you)”, even as party chief Akhilesh Yadav charged the prime minister with misleading the people of the state by talking about development. The video was also circulated on Face book. 

The video, which plays a line “intezar hai, tumhara intezaar hai...” raises 10 points, which the party claims people of the state were still awaiting.  Starting with “economic help to farmers” as point number one to “reforms in police system”, “ambulance services in 15 minutes” and “police help in 15 minutes”, the video seeks to remind people of the promise of “every hand has right to work” and also “free laptop and internet”.

“Help to Siksha mitra”, “women security”, “village, urban development” and “cultural development” are still elusive and people are waiting for it, it says.         Modi’s Uttar Pradesh tour today would mark his sixth visit to the state this month and second to Lucknow in as many days.    He was here on Saturday attend a programme on “Transforming Urban Landscape”, marking the third anniversary of three key government initiatives related to urban development — Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban), Atal Mission for Rejuvenation of Urban Transformation (AMRUT) and the Smart Cities Mission.

Earlier this month, Modi visited his parliamentary Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi, Azamgarh and Mirzapur, besides Noida (Gamtam Buddha Nagar). He had visited Sant Kabir Nagar on June 28. Describing Modi’s event in Lucknow as a successful attempt to “mislead” the people by talking about development, the SP chief alleged the BJP ‘excels’ in taking credit for not doing anything in the interest of the people.

“BJP is an expert when it comes to quoting unfounded statistics on development. The PM praises the CM for having done nothing for the development of the state and the CM praises him in return, which is laughable,” said Akhilesh Yadav. The former chief minister said though the prime minister “built castles of development in air”, he “conveniently skipped” mentioning the 302 km Lucknow-Agra Expressway, the Gomti Riverfront, Janeshwar Misra Park and Lucknow Metro, which were flagship projects of the SP government.