Mainpuri bypoll: Authorities will 'crack down' on party leaders ahead of election, claims SP's Dimple Yadav

Samajwadi Party leader Dimple Yadav on Sunday claimed that the BJPled administration will crack down on local party leaders ahead of the Mainpuri byelection and asked them to not sleep at their homes the night before pollingShe said the Uttar Pradeshs Mainpuri constituency has been the area of SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadavs who had worked for its development and asserted that the party is going to the people with this reality in the upcoming bypoll hereDimple the wife of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav has been fielded from the seat which has been represented by party patriarch Mulayam Singh YadavPolling in Mainpuri will be held on December 5 while counting of votes will take place on December 8I would like to tell my young friends and SP leaders that the administration will act tough on you on December 4 Do not sleep in your homes on December 4 so that on December 5 nobody can even touch youYou go and cast your votes and on December 6 the administration will disappear from here she said at an election meeting at Ahirava village under Bhogaon assembly segmentShe also urged women to vote for the party saying the administration cannot use force on you You are the women power and you can fight You should go and cast your voteAn elderly person told me that it is the administration which is contesting the bypoll I told her on one hand there is the administration which is contesting the elections on the other the people of Mainpuri are contesting the bypoll for netajiThis is not my election This is the your people election and that of our respected netaji I am sure that Mainpuri will honour and pay tributes to netaji she saidAn SP delegation also met Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral officer CEO and demanded removal of Mainpuri District Magistrate and Senior Senior Superintendent of Police SSP from election work alleging that they were misusing their administrative powerThe SP leaders alleged that DM Avinash Kumar Rai and SSP Jai Prakash Singh are putting pressure on village heads block heads district panchyat members and others to vote for the BJP in the Mainpuri bypollAlso Read PM Modi likely to address rallies in Kutch Jamnagar Bhavnagar and RajkotThey said free and fair election in Mainpuri was not possible till these officials remained on their postIt is a reality that this area Mainpuri has been the area of netaji You cannot cover this reality This is the fact and reality and we are going to the public with this reality she told PTI on the sidelines of her election meetingAsked how she views this bypoll she said People of Mainpuri know that netaji carried out development projects here and people will honour him in the upcoming bypollAsked whether the SPs first family reunited because of the polls and may again part ways later she said Let us not speculate about the family Let us work at the ground level on matters related to the publicPragatisheel Samajwadi Party Lohia president Shivpal Singh Yadav had recently said it was a phone call from daughterinlaw Dimple Yadav that prompted him to campaign for her for the upcoming Mainpuri bypollAmid a deteriorating relationship with nephew Akhilesh Yadav the PSPL chief agreed to campaign for the SP chiefs wife in the upcoming bypollThe Mainpuri parliamentary constituency has five assembly segments Mainpuri Bhogaon Kishni Karhal and Jaswant NagarIn the 2022 assembly elections the SP won the Karhal Kishni and the Jaswant Nagar seats while the BJP won the Mainpuri and the Bhogaon seatsAkhilesh Yadavs Karhal assembly seat is part of Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency and so is Jaswant Nagar which is represented by Shivpal YadavAddressing the gathering Dimple said This is the first bypoll when netaji is not among us Netaji had an emotional relationship with the people of Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency and people from here resided in his heartHe used to consider their problems as his own He has done the maximum development of this place be it roads electricity irrigation education of girls or jobs for the youthNetaji had always thought about everyone he had given importance to everyone and had taken everyone along He had never indulged in politics of partiality and discriminationHe was always concerned about the development of Mainpuri and how to help people here she saidShe said the farmers are feeling worried under the BJPled state government as they are not able to get fertilisers Those who are getting it are able to do so with great difficulty and procuring it at expensive rates she saidOur women are not safe they are not getting their pensions she said adding that the earlier SP government had given Kanya Vidya Dhan to girls laptops to students and had built good roadsHowever a present not a single new work has been done in this area or in the state she chargedShe alleged that the present arrogant government is not ready to accept that people are facing difficulties they are dealing with inflation youths are unemployed and the daughters are not safeThis government is not ready to accept the prevailing circumstances When they will not ready to accept how will it deliberate on them she askedThey can only talk about diversions They can make you fight against each other and will not think about your future or of your children she said and urged people to vote for her party on December 5She also claimed that when SP was in power the party followed the path of ideology and principles and also moving forward by taking everyone alongThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever