Lucknow: Taking a jibe on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday mentioned that the bicycle yatra dubbed the Samajwadi PDA Yatra will proceed to take away the BJP including that the INDIA bloc will win within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Notably, the ‘Samajwadi PDA Yatra,’ signifies the launch of Akhilesh’s marketing campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
“This yatra will continue to remove the BJP. We will go among the people, connect with them, and create awareness. We will remove the BJP. This yatra came today to Lucknow. For many days, party workers have participated in the yatra in their districts. People are connecting in large numbers, and we will get support,” the celebration chief informed ANI whereas taking part within the rally.
“PDA will defeat NDA and the INDIA bloc will win in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections,” he added. Earlier within the day, the SP Chief hit out at a query posed by a journalist in regards to the place of ‘ahead’ or basic caste individuals within the celebration’s PDA claiming his celebration stood with everybody.
The celebration chief was responding to the media at a press convention at Lucknow on Monday on the launch of his bicycle yatra dubbed the Samajwadi PDA Yatra. PDA which stands for Pichhda, Dalit and Alpsankhyak is a time period coined by the SP to outline the individuals who the celebration is trying to handle. Today, Akhilesh Yadav added one other A to the grouping saying that in PDA, ‘A’ additionally stands for ‘Agdaa’ which means the ahead class.
“In PDA, ‘A’ is also for ‘Agdaa’ (forward). This is the problem that we are not accepting that we are forward, even when we are,” Akhilesh mentioned. He additional defined that the issue lies in the truth that the individuals have the notion that the Yadav neighborhood is backward. He added {that a} backward individual can’t construct a stadium just like the Lucknow Ekana Stadium.
“This is the problem. You think that Yadav means ‘backwards’. Did you not go to the stadium to watch the match? How are we ‘backward’? A ‘backward’ cannot build a stadium like that (Lucknow Ekana Stadium),” he mentioned.
Akhilesh was referring to the stadium the place India scored a 100-run win in opposition to England within the twenty ninth match of the ODI World Cup 2023 in Lucknow on Sunday. Leaders throughout the political aisle hailed Team India’s victory. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was in attendance on the stadium.
The Lucknow Ekana Stadium was constructed in the course of the Samajwadi Party’s regime when Akhilesh Yadav was the Chief Minister. The Samajwadi Party (SP) chief had coined the time period ‘PDA’ saying that it’s the title of the unity born out of shared consciousness and feeling in opposition to the exploitation and oppression of those that are “Pichhde” (backwards), Dalit and “Alpasankhyak” (minority).