"BJP Doesn't Fulfil The Needs Of Farmers, Youth,": SP Chief Akhilesh

Mr. Yadav was concerned over the law and order of UP

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh is at the urge of Assembly election polls. In a bus ride from Delhi to Muzzafarpur, the Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav spoke to NDTV, slamming the ruling party.

The SP chief alleged to the ruling party to halt the chopper from doing the campaign, hit out at the BJP for not fulfilling their promises of doubling farmers' incomes, providing jobs to the youth and cracking down on farmers.

During the interview conducted by NDTV, Mr. Yadav showed his concerns over the law and order of the state and said that his government's record and the BJP's allegations against his party.

While doing a fierce attack on the ruling party BJP and opening about the law-and-order issues during his previous term governing the state, he said: "Did anyone imagine that farmers would one day be mowed down with jeeps?"

The people of the state already rejected the old state of affairs, he said about his last term. "Now, we can assure you that we will take law and order very seriously. Strict action will be taken against those who break the law," Samajwadi chief added.

Akhilesh Yadav ensured that the Samajwadi Party, while in power, gave the best police response system to the state. "We gave a structure and also the infrastructure for the state police to work better in coordination," he said and added that if voted to power, they would seek suggestions from aware citizens and experts on law and order to improve the situation in the state.

Highlighting crimes under Yogi Adityanath's term in the state, he mentioned the Hathras rape case and the businessman killed by the police in Gorakhpur. Mr Yadav accused the BJP government of cracking down on farmers and filing cases against thousands of youths in Prayagraj when they protested for jobs.