The Taj Ganges hotel lobby in Varanasi looks like the security check at an airport. The hotel staff tries in vain to calm the crowd that has come to meet and greet Akhilesh Bhaiya. Â The Samajwadi Party leader is here for the last leg of election campaigning. 바카라His supporters can smell that he is close to victory,바카라 quips one.Â
In the quiet environs of the hotel바카라s conference room, Akhilesh Yadav strides in, weary after a long and hard election campaign over seven phases, but brimming with confidence. 바카라My programmes have been going on well but finally the voters have to come to the booth. I know I have the votes but they have to be cast. We have to get the strategy right at the booth level, we can바카라t let our voters sit at home thinking SP is winning anyway,바카라 he says.
Akhilesh Yadav says the Dalits and the backward castes had become angry with the party in the last few years but now they are back with them. He says all the opposition parties are plotting to keep the SP from coming to power. 바카라There are three groups바카라the BSP, the Congress and Owaisi바카라whose only aim to keep SP out. You analyse their candidate selection in many constituencies and it will be clear they are there to cut our votes. The BJP is trying to communalise the elections but this time the people have not fallen for it,바카라 says Yadav.
The main reason for that, he says, is unemployment. According to him, sugarcane was a big issue in Western UP, the farmers there are very agitated. Covid and lockdown have hurt the people too much and they are not satisfied with doles like free ration.
There have been allegations of goondaraj in the state when SP was in power the last time. Yadav says that will be corrected. 바카라They say that Samajwadi Party is a mafia party, that there was no law and order when we were in power. But it was us who started the police response system. But yes, if we come to power, there will be more attention on policing. In any case, all those so-called mafia groups have disintegrated,바카라
He admits stray cattle is a big issue in the state. 바카라We have to address it if we come to power. It바카라s a complex issue, we have to find a solution, I don바카라t have an answer now but it will be a priority area for us to find a way,바카라 says Yadav. How many seats are they expecting to win? 바카라Look, we don바카라t do those calculations and predictions. I am focusing on getting our voters to the polling booth to come and vote. If we succeed in that we will do well,바카라 he says.
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