Lucknow: Samajwadi Party President and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of intimidating opposition leaders with the help of central institutions. He also accused Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath of tapping his phone and that of Samajwadi Party workers.
In a conversation with reporters at the SP headquarters, Yadav termed Yogi as a useless Chief Minister and the BJP government as a useless government and alleged that “we are listening to everyone’s phones and the useless Chief Minister himself listens to recordings of some people in the evening.” He told reporters, “You people also be careful if you talk to us on the phone, then definitely be careful.”
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On Saturday, the SP chief expressed anger over the raids by the Income Tax Department in the houses of other SP leaders, including the residences of the party’s national secretary Rajiv Rai, saying, “As the BJP will be defeated, their leaders in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Ministers and people coming from Delhi The number of politicians will increase and there was no doubt that the party will carry out attacks by resorting to the Income Tax Department, Enforcement Directorate, Central Bureau of Investigation and other institutions.
Alleging harassment of SP workers by taking the help of central institutions, he said, “Till now these institutions were used to remove the present government, but for the first time it is being seen that the SP government is not formed in Uttar Pradesh.” These institutions are being used for this. He alleged that the BJP is also going the Congress route to intimidate the opposition parties by taking the help of central agencies.
Referring to the uproar of the Nishads on the demand for reservation in the joint rally of BJP and its ally Nirbal Indian Shoshit Hamara Aam Dal (Nishad) on Friday, the SP chief said that the ruckus that took place on the stage, the betrayal of the Nishad community. , that is not only done by Nishad Samaj but this unhelpful government with backward, most backward, dalit and large number of forward and brahmins. Lashing out at the Chief Minister, the SP chief said that he defeated the SP in the Lok Sabha elections by colluding with homogeneous officials under a casteist mindset.
The former chief minister also alleged that in Gorakhpur, the unhelpful chief minister had bulldozers into his shops and took away his compensation even though the shops were built on government land. Yadav said that Uttar Pradesh has become number one in the country in criminal incidents, atrocities, spreading hatred, police custodial deaths, making false promises, hiding data and claiming the work of others as its work.