Ballia (UP): Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Yadav on Wednesday targeted the BJP over violence in Haryana and Manipur and said whenever elections are near, the party ?indulges in conspiracy and gets riots done.
While replying to a question regarding the recent violence in the two states, Yadav said, BJP members only do politics of appeasement. Whenever elections come near, they make conspiracy and get riots done."
At least six people, including two home guards and a cleric, were killed in the communal violence in Haryana on July 31 while 116 have been arrested. Yadav said that the Samajwadi Party (SP) will do better in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls and claimed that the party will win at least 50 seats (out of a total of 80) in the state.
In the 2019 elections, SP had contested Lok Sabha polls in alliance with the BSP and won only 5 seats while BSP bagged 10 seats. Attacking SBSP chief Om Prakash Rajbhar, whose party recently became part of NDA, Yadav said, "Even people of his community have lost faith in him."
"His words have no meaning. He can say anything to anyone. You all have heard what he used to say about the Prime Minister and Chief Minister during assembly polls," he said. SBSP contested the 2022 assembly polls in alliance with the SP.
Addressing a press conference at a private hotel in Fefna area, Yadav said, "BJP people don't believe in the court, constitution and democracy. They can't wait for the court verdict (in the Gyanvapi case) and make statements."
When asked about the chances of him contesting from the Azamgarh seat, which was won by party Chief Akhilesh Yadav in 2019, he said that he would follow the decision of party national leadership in this regard.
On taking gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari's son Abbas Ansari, SBSP MLA, in SP, Yadav said, "He was with Om Prakash Rajbhar till now. When he comes out of jail we will talk about it and the leadership will take a decision on it."
Replying to a question regarding elections on the Varanasi seat, he said that the opposition alliance INDIA candidate will contest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. On being asked whether he will go to Ayodhya darshan, Yadav said, "Once the construction completes, I will surely go there for darshan."
