Lucknow (TIP)- Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav held a joint press conference in Lucknow on Thursday, May 16, and urged Uttar Pradesh to vote for the INDIA bloc candidates, alleging that the Bharatiya Janata Party will end reservation if it got more than 400 seats in the general elections.
Kejriwal also reiterated his claim that Union home minister Amit Shah will be made the next prime minister and Yogi Adiyanath removed as Uttar Pradesh CM if the BJP returns to power. The BJP has repeatedly dismissed the allegations. “The people of BJP have always been against reservation. They will change the Constitution and end reservation of scheduled caste, scheduled tribe and other backward classes after coming to power,” Kejriwal said.
“They say the BJP is going to do something big after coming to power. The big thing they want to do is to end reservations. We know their ecosystem — RSS, BJP — has been against reservation. I want to alert that they want more than 400 seats because they want to destroy the reservation made by BR Ambedkar,” he claimed.
Kejriwal said trends from across the country show that the BJP is getting less than 220 seats. The seats of BJP in Haryana, Delhi, Karnataka, UP, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Bihar and Jahrkhand are reducing and the party is not winning a single seat in Punjab, he added.
Yadav said that the INDIA bloc will form the government on June 4, when the election results are announced. “The atmosphere in the country indicates that in the first four phases, the BJP fell flat…And the BJP’s river of tears is in spate,” he said. “The BJP is the biggest liar in the universe. After its defeat, they are going to open a school of lies. It’s already decided which two will be the vice chancellor and dean,” he said.
This is the first joint press conference by the two leaders in UP, which sends 80 members to the Lok Sabha. The AAP is not fighting any seat in the state but is a key member of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA). 41 Lok Sabha seats in the state will go to the polls in the fifth, sixth and seventh phases . Kejriwal said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made a rule that anyone over 75 will not be given any post in the government and the organisation, and will be retired. “When the BJP attained power in 2014, PM Modi made a rule that anyone attaining the age of 75 will not hold any position in the government or the party, the person will be retired at 75…and under that rule, the first retirees were Advaniji and Murli Manohar Joshiji…Now, the next year on September 17, Modiji will be 75, and Modiji has decided that he will make Amit Shah ji his heir (waaris)”. “I had raised these two issues in my Delhi press conference, and then Amit Shah attempted to clarify “no such thing is going to happen”. The other leaders are denying it but Modi ji himself is not denying it…for Modiji is going to follow the rule he made for others or else people will think that Modiji had made the rule to sideline Advaniji and others,” he said. Source: HT