Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Monday claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worked hard to destroy the brotherhood of India and western U.P. in particular. Mr. Yadav, addressing an election rally in Muzaffarnagar, asked voters to not fall into the trap of empty rhetoric but rather to vote on fundamental issues such as jobs and social security. He added that in its decade long rule the saffron party has committed grave injustices against each and every section of the population.
“Our country is of Ganga-Jamuni culture, these people of the BJP are working to destroy the brotherhood of India and western U.P. Each of their decisions is against the public. The youth who used to prepare for the army by staying in their villages, towns, and cities, these people [BJP government] in a single day changed the law that in the future there will be no permanent jobs and made the army service a four-year contract,” Mr. Yadav said.
In Muzaffarnagar, the SP candidate Harendra Malik is locked in a three-way battle with Union Minister Sanjeev Balyan of the BJP and Dara Singh Prajapati of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
