Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday indicated his social gathering might subject a candidate in the subsequent election from the high-profile Amethi seat, which it used to depart for the Congress. Yadav, who visited Amethi on Sunday for the marriage of influential social gathering chief and former UP minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati’s daughter, gave the indication in a tweet in Hindi.
“I was deeply saddened to see the plight of poor women in Amethi. VIPs have always won and lost here, yet the condition is like this here so what to say about the rest of the state,” he tweeted, together with two pictures of ladies sitting on the bottom throughout his go to. “Next time Amethi will not elect big people but people with big hearts. SP takes a pledge to eradicate poverty from Amethi,” he added.
The Amethi parliamentary seat, which was thought of a Congress pocket borough, is presently represented by BJP chief Smriti Irani, who defeated Congress chief Rahul in 2019 parliamentary elections.
On Sunday too, Yadav had hit out on the BJP. Without taking the title of Union minister Irani, he requested the folks of the constituency to defeat her in the 2024 Lok Sabha election. “The ‘cylinder waali’ is the MP from this place. Definitely defeat her,” he stated. “Earlier, the BJP people used to carry a cylinder on their head. Today, inflation is at an all-time high, but they have no answer,” Yadav added.
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