LUCKNOW: Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Tuesday rubbished Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav’s allegations of the ruling BJP’s attempt to influence the poll results as a mere ‘excuse’ to explain his party’s defeat in the 2022 Assembly polls. He said the truth is that a new ‘MY’ factor has tilted the scale in BJP’s favour where ‘M-Y’ stand for Modi and Yogi.
“I had said it before and repeating again: Ye wahi SaPa hai jis se janata khafa hai, aur 10 March ko Akhilesh kahenge ki EVM bewafa hai (This is the same SP with whom the public is unhappy and on March 8 Akhilesh will claim that EVMs were manipulated),” the Union minister said, giving a spin to SP’s slogan of “Nayi hawa hai, nayi Sapa hai (This is a new SP). “I was under the impression that Akhilesh will point fingers at the EVM after losing the elections on March 10 when the votes will be counted. But he has started accusing the EVMs two days in advance,” he said, adding that SP is looking for an excuse to mask its defeat in the polls.
