SP will contest on all 80 seats in LS elections, says Akhilesh

Varanasi: Samajwadi Party supremo and former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav said that his party will contest on all 80 seats along with its alliance partners in the Lok Sabha elections. He said that the SP won the Mainpuri Lok Sabha bypoll with a huge margin.
Talking to reporters in Azamgarh on Saturday, he said that the BJP has not yet been able to calculate the defeat of the Mainpuri elections. He said that the BJP got a crushing defeat in Mainpuri because it was not able to give any answer to issues like inflation, unemployment and the promises of doubling farmers' income. He said that everything has become expensive in BJP rule. The government should tell where the profit of all these is going.
Targeting BJP, Akhilesh said that it (BJP) is showing the dream of making one trillion dollar economy but it is not telling what should be the growth rate of GDP for that. In the report of NITI Aayog, Uttar Pradesh has lagged behind in every parameter, he added. The BJP government talks about destroying the mafias but why it is not releasing the list of top 10 and top 100 criminals, he said, adding that corruption is at its peak in the BJP government. The demonetisation has failed, and all BJP leaders are involved in corruption and are being caught with currency notes at many places, he alleged.
Akhilesh further alleged that the BJP has betrayed the youth, failing to give job and employment. The youth will teach a lesson to the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, otherwise it will give half-baked jobs like Agniveer. “Our youth wants to serve the country by wearing uniforms, not a half-baked job. The youth will have to unite and remove the BJP to save the country and the society,” he said.