National parties should support regional ones in their fight against BJP: Akhilesh Yadav

In a remark apparently meant for the Congress Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday said the national parties should support regional parties fighting the Bharatiya Janata Party in their statesWhile answering a question on Congress leader Rahul Gandhis disqualification from the Lok Sabha the former UP chief minister said he wanted to congratulate the party for observing satyagrahaWhen asked if his party would support the Congress movement the Leader of Opposition LoP said the question is not whether the Samajwadi Party is sympathetic towards Rahul Gandhi but whether the countrys democracy and constitution will survive or notWe cannot sympathise with any party he said adding that the national parties should cooperate and help the parties that are fighting against the BJP at the state levelYadav said the national parties should forget that the regional parties have done them any harm It is the government at the Centre which have harmed the regional partiesToday CBI Enforcement Directorate ED and Income Tax are targeting regional parties he said adding Be it Netaji Mulayam Singh Yadav Lalu Prasad Yadav Jayalalithaa Stalin KCR or Delhis Aam Aadmi Party all have been tragetted by the parties at the CentreAlso Read Rahul Gandhis disqualification Congress leaders protest in Andaman and NicobarReplying to a question on the alliance he said It is not our job to form an alliance It is our job to cooperate with the allianceOn communalism Yadav said The question here is not who is communal If the educated class of our country becomes communal and starts believing the lies as truth then there can be no bigger threat to society and democracy than that Today we have reached that situationHe said the Samajwadi Party will have a cadre at every single booth of all the parliamentary constituencies in the state by June 5 and will fight the BJP strongly in the 2024 Lok Sabha electionsSpeaking on the occasion SP National Vice President Kiranmoy Nanda said in the recent meeting of the partys national executive committee in Kolkata a target was set to win at least 40 out of 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh in the upcoming Lok Sabha electionsYadav claimed that the BJPled Uttar Pradesh government has made false claims and presented wrong development figuresHe said in the budget speech the states growth rate was pegged at 169 per cent and claimed that the Yogi Adityanathled government paid Rs 200 crore to Deloitte for converting this lie into truthAn international professional services network headquartered in London Deloitte is included in the worlds largest accounting firm The company provides audit consulting financial advisory risk advisory and legal servicesYadav said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath while celebrating the six years of his government yesterday Saturday said the per capita income of the state has doubled Dont know which economist is sitting here who tells thisAccusing the BJP government of the youth unemployment rate Yadav said Every time the government is asked about the rate of unemployment It says that the unemployment rate in the state is only 42 per cent This means that you have given jobs and employment to everyone but the truth is that a large number of youth are sitting at home after completing their studiesReferring to Arif a resident of Amethi district who became famous for his friendship with saras said The government should have honoured Arif as a friend of saras and given him a prize If there was a Samajwadi government we would have promoted such a youthThis 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