Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav claimed on Sunday that the BJP leadership was not giving the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ticket to contest the upcoming assembly elections.
Slamming Adityanath, he also exuded confidence of dethroning the BJP government in the state and winning 400 seats in the polls.
“The question is that no one is giving the ticket to the chief minister, nothing can be more unfortunate than this,” Yadav said while speaking at a conclave.
Adityanath has announced that he will contest the upcoming elections from a seat which is decided by the party’s top leadership. Yadav too said that he will contest the elections from a seat decided by his party.
Accusing the saffron party of indulging in temple politics ahead of the polls, Yadav hit out at the BJP’s claim that the next religious city in its list of development after Ayodhya and Kashi was Mathura.
He also took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the recent security breach incident in Punjab, saying that the prime minister should have gone to the rally venue in Ferozpur so that “he could see the empty chairs” there.
Yadav’s party has joined hands with the BJP’s former ally SBSP and Jayant Chaudhary-led Rashtriya Lok Dal.
Meanwhile, the Election Commission has announced the schedule for the assembly elections in five states including Uttar Pradesh. The state will go to polls in seven phases from February 10 to March 7 and the counting of votes will be on March 10.
