Samajwadi Party (SP) leader and Kannauj MP Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday said his party’s victory in Faizabad (Ayodhya) was a “message from Lord Rama”. He said the outcome of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections marked an end to “sectarian politics” in India and was a moral victory for the Indian camp.
Akhilesh read out “Shaili” and recited Chaupai from Ramcharitmanas while taking part in the vote of thanks for the President’s address. The SP leader thanked the “wise and sincere” voters who had not allowed “Loktantra to Ektantra (shift from democracy to individual system)” in the country.
Akhilesh attributed the SP’s victory in Faizabad to the country’s mature voters’ understanding of democracy and recited the chaupai of Ramcharitmanas: “Hoi wahi jo Ram rachi raka (Whatever Ram plans will happen).”
Seated next to him by Faizabad MP Awadhesh Prasad, Akhilesh said he had brought Lord Rama’s “Prem ka paigam” (message of love) from Ayodhya.
He recited the Urdu couplet: “Huzur-e-alla aaj tak khamosh baithey hain issi gham me, mehfil loot le gaya koi jabki sajai humne.”
The SP leader, who has called for a caste census along with his ally the BJP during the campaign for the Lok Sabha elections, said “social justice cannot be achieved without a caste census.”
Taking a dig at the BJP’s ‘400 per’ election slogan, Akhilesh recited another couplet – “A government that lost the election, a government that can fall at any time”. He went on to call the NDA government a “government that lost the election” and a “government that can fall at any time”.
Akhilesh said the entire nation understands that India is the only “pro-India” country. He called the success of the opposition alliance a “victory for positive politics, a victory for the PDA (Pichde Dari Alpsangkayak) and the social justice movement.” He also said the results message for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections is full of responsibility for the India camp.
He termed June 4, 2024 (the date on which the poll results will be announced) as the day of liberation from “communal politics” and the beginning of “Samdaik Rajneeti” (communal politics).
“This time, the pro-constitution and the defenders of the constitution have won,” the SP leader said. He said the country would be run according to the aspirations of the people and not personal ambitions. “Not your will, but the will of the people will prevail,” he added. He also said the election results marked the end of “top-down politics”.
Without naming any ruling party leaders, Akhilesh said, “In the name of double engine, there is nothing but differences in Uttar Pradesh. In the battle for supremacy in Uttar Pradesh, the people are suffering.”
Criticising the government over the recruitment exam document leak scandal, Akhilesh said the government’s only “achievement” in the last 10 years was the emergence of an “educational exam mafia”.
He said document leaks were taking place in all recruitment exams in Uttar Pradesh and accused the government of enabling it “because it does not want to give jobs to the youth”. “If jobs are given, reservations should also be given… The government knows this and has been toying with jobs and reservations,” he said.
Akhilesh reiterated the Indian Union’s stand on the Agnivelu project. “If the Indian Union comes to power, the Agnivelu project will be scrapped,” he said.
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First uploaded: 07 March 2024 02:58 IST
